Google is one of the most popular search engine offers many different features in different languages.
The term “Google Dork” was invented by Johnny Long. As we know, search engines are designed for efficiently finding information on Internet. Usually, users simply input search terms (keywords) and search engines will return relevant websites that contain corresponding information. However, search engines also support some special operators for relatively complex searching, such as inurl, intitle, and intext. Search queries with these special operators are called Google Dorks.
With the help of Google Dorks, users can easily and quickly find more accurate search results but it has also been abused by many attackers.
Here we’ve also listed out some useful Google Dorks to search for companies that have a responsible disclosure program or bug bounty programs.
| S.No. | Operators | Description | Example |
|---|---|---|---|
| 01 | intitle: | Search Page Titles | intitle:admin login |
| 02 | allintitle: | Search Page Title | allintitle:admin login |
| 03 | inurl: | Search URL | inurl:8080/login |
| 04 | allinurl: | Search URL | allinurl:adminlogin |
| 05 | filetype: | Specific Files | filetype:json |
| 06 | intext: | Search text of page only | intext: admin credentials |
| 07 | allintext: | Search text of page only | allintext: “security tools” |
| 08 | site: | Search specific site | site:example.com |
| 09 | link: | Search for links to pages | link:bing.com |
| 10 | inanchor: | Search link anchor text | inanchor:”guest user” |
| 11 | cache: | Search for cached version of any website | cache:www.example.com |
| 12 | related: | Search for similar types of websites | related:www.example.com |
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