Google hacking

Google hacking doesn't mean to hack Google. Google hacking term used when a hacker tries to find vulnerable targets or sensitive data by using

the Google search engine.In Google hacking hackers use search engine commands to locate sensitive data and vulnerable devices on the Internet. Google supports a multitude of operators and modifiers that add a ton of power to google searching.

Although Google hacking techniques are against Google terms of service and Google blocks well-known Google hacking queries, nothing can stop hackers from crawling websites and launching Google queries.

I am going to explain some operators used in Google hacking

intitle:

Syntax: intitle:operator 

This will return all the pages that have word entered after the intitle (as we used operator here) in the title of the page. If you want to check for multiple keywords in title use allintitle in place of intitle.

allintitle:operator1 operator2....

inurl:

Syntax: inurl:operator

This will return all the pages that have word entered after the inurl in the url of a page. If you want to check for multiple keywords in url use allinurl in place of inurl

allinurl:operator1 operator2 ....

site:

Syntax: site:Domain

This will return all the pages that have certain keywords in that particular site or domain.

link:

Syntax: link:URL

This will list down webpages that have links to the specified webpage.

intext:

Syntax: intext:operator

This will return all the pages that have word entered after the intext in the particular website. If you want to check for multiple keywords in website use allintext in place of intext

allintext:operator1 operator2 ....

related:

Syntax: related:URL

The “related:” will list web pages that are "similar" to a specified web page. For Example:

“related:www.ethicalhack4u.blogspot.com” will list web pages that are similar to the

ethicalhacking homepage

Note T

here can be no space between the "related:" and the web page url.

cache:

Syntax: cache:URL [highlight]

The cache operator will search through google’s cache and return the

results based on those documents. You can alternatively tell cache to

highlight a word or phrase by adding it after the operator and URL.

info:

Syntax: info:URL

This tag will give you the information that Google has on the given URL.

filetype:

Syntax:

filetype

:keyword

This will restricts Google search for files on internet with particular extensions (i.e. doc, pdf

or ppt etc).

Well, the Google’s query syntaxes discussed above can really

help people to precise their search and get what they are

exactly looking for.