Google Dorks

Google Dorks

Google!!!

One of the most used search engine of all time. Problems to our all solution is to "Google up everything" or what is now popularly called as "Googling" . We use google for almost everything, it has now become an integral part of our life. 

But do you know how to use it efficiently,sometime you want to search for something and messed up with clicking on everylink that appears on the search result. And even after searching for hours you don't get satifactory result.

That was what you used to do before, from now you will probably be using google dorks for fast and efficient search.

For eg.  okay lets suppose that you wanna search for ebooks on topic 'networking' , our obvious search queries would be like this "Networking ebooks", "free ebooks for networking" etc,we keep going into the websites, clicking on link after links and then get proper downling links. Now lets do the same search in a different way , type on google "ext:pdf networking" (without quotes). So how about that, impressed yet.!!

If you are new in Hacking, maybe it will be a new term for you. But it is very famous in hackers world now a days.Actually its all are google search opreators, means hackers are taking benefit of google search techniques.

Some of basic operators:

     1.site: It returns the websites of specified domains.

         For Eg. [site:Google.com] will return the links of webpages of domain google.com.

     2. info: It will present information that Google has about that web page.

         For Eg., [info:www.google.com] will show information about the Google homepage. 

     3.inurl-It restricts the results to sites whose URL's contains specified phrase.

         For Eg: [inurl:coe-roorkee.com: contact us]  give you the contact details of the website.

     4.cache: It returns the cached webpage retain by google. 

         For Eg. [cache:facebook.com] will display a cache page of facebook.

     5.ext- It specifies the extension of file type. 

       For Eg. [ext:pdf] will disaply all pdf files related to hacking and ext:ppt will give ppts for hacking. 

     6. related- It returns the websites similar to specified websites.

        For Eg.[related:google.com] will list all the search engines in the search result.

    7. define:It will provide a definition of the words you enter after it, gathered from various online sources.

        For Eg: [define:Hacking} will define the meaning of hacking.

    8.link:It will list webpages that have links to the specified webpage

       For Eg.  [link:www.google.com] will list webpages that have links pointing to the Google homepage. 

Google Dorks can be used to find the vulnerability in the sites. Hackers use google dorks to find SQL vulnerability in sites. 

I'll disscuss how to use google dorks for SQL injection in later posts.