Google Dorks(Google hacking)

Google Dork is a special string for finding any specified or restricted result from any specified website or from the whole Internet with the help of Google Search Engine. These Strings are built with the advanced search operators supported by Google Search Engine.

Let’s do some Dorking to understand it!

If you want to search for a blog on a particular topic, say “Software Development”. A simple search query would be “Blog on Software Development”

However, this query returns the results that do not just contain blogs but related links as well. As you can see in the screenshot, there are more than 10 Million results. It is not humanly possible to go through all the links.

In this case, Google Dorking comes to the rescue and can be used to filter these results. Instead of simple search query try the following:

Inurl:”/blog” intitle:“Software Develpoment”

Notice, how the results got filtered and went down from 48 Million to just 74. You can also see that most of the results are blog links.

If you want to filter these results further and look for a blog on a particular site, say medium.com, you can try the following query:

Inurl:”/blog” site:medium.com intitle:“Software Development”

You can observe that Google filters the results from 10 Million to just 1. 

We have used Google Dorks in the above query to filter our results.

Google Dorks, sometimes also referred to as just Dorks is a search string that uses advanced search operators and helps us in finding information which is not easily available on a website. Below are some more Dorks :

Google Dorking is not limited to providing you with a refined search result but with also a lot of interesting hidden information too. Let us see what else you can search with the help of Google Dorking.

Public Google Drives: You can also find files and folders on Google Drive with public access. 

Try the query:

inurl:"folderview?id=" site:"drive.google.com"

Following is a query for searching .txt files with desired names.

Try the query:

ext:txt filename

Word of Advice: Google hacking, also named Google dorking, is a computer hacking technique that uses Google Search and other Google applications to find security holes in the configuration and computer code that websites use. This post is only for the purpose of educating about Google Dorking. This technique is as good as it is bad and should NOT be used for any malicious activity. Hacking is an illegal activity and I strongly condemn it and advise everyone to refrain from it.

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