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# Google Dorks

Google "dorking" is a fancy way of using Google's advanced search operators to find very targeted information. The [Google Hacking Database](https://www.exploit-db.com/google-hacking-database) contains hundreds of examples, but I'll cover some basic uses here.

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**site:** Limit the search results to those from a specific website.\
**site:apple.com**

Not so useful by itself but will return every page that Google has indexed for the apple.com domain.

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**intitle:** Find pages with a certain word in the title.\
**intitle:apple**

This will return every page that contains the word "apple" in the title.

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**inurl:** Find pages with a certain word in the URL.\
**inurl:apple**

This will return every page where "apple" appears in the URL.

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**intext:** Find pages containing a certain word (or words) somewhere in the content.\
**intext:apple**

This will return every page where "apple" appears in the body text.

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**filetype:** Search for filetypes that Google understands.\
**site:apple.com filetype:pdf**

This will return all PDFs on apple.com. Other filetypes such as docx, pptx and xlsx also work. This could be combined with **intitle:report** to find all PDFs that have "report" in the name. Google does not understand all filetypes, so inurl could be used instead.

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**#..#:** Search for a range of numbers.\
**site:apple.com filetype:pdf 2020..2022**

This will return all PDFs on apple.com which contain the numbers 2020, 2021 and 2022. Useful for finding information constrained to a given timeframe.\
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**-:** Exclude a phrase.\
**site:apple.com -www -support**

This will return pages indexed on apple.com excluding the *www* and *support* domains. Useful for finding other subdomains.

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These dorks can be used to find interesting files, web applications and information.