Dorking: the use of search engines to find very specific data
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#2Why doesn't google.com have a comprehensive list of these? I'm constantly seeing new ones that I didn't know about, but google never teaches you about them so you have to find them in obscure blog posts
Re: Dorking: the use of search engines to find very specific data
#3Why doesn't google.com have a comprehensive list of these? I'm constantly seeing new ones that I didn't know about, but google never teaches you about them so you have to find them in obscure blog posts
My guess would be because Google eventually wants users to find everything via natural language queries.
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#4Why doesn't google.com have a comprehensive list of these? I'm constantly seeing new ones that I didn't know about, but google never teaches you about them so you have to find them in obscure blog posts
Google randomly ignores "search term in quotes".
Related:examplesite.com used to work well. Now, it's better to use sites like alternativeto.net.
~phrase is unnecessary because but google searches for synonyms by default
phrase1 + phrase2 - Google randomly ignores it. I use it this way +compulsoryTerm
Although rare, there are things I simply can't find using Google. But Bing would. If Google keeps it up, other search engines would benefit.
Re: Dorking: the use of search engines to find very specific data
#5I love the “inject JS into the page to find stuff” hack. The author mentions local “site you are on” but this can be applied with headless chrome to crawl many sites.
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#6https://www.google.nl/search?q=site%3A+news.ycombinator.com+...
i use to use these a lot but now it's just useless
Re: Dorking: the use of search engines to find very specific data
#7Why doesn't google.com have a comprehensive list of these? I'm constantly seeing new ones that I didn't know about, but google never teaches you about them so you have to find them in obscure blog posts
My guess would be because Google eventually wants users to find everything via natural language queries.
the goal is to make you look at advertisement
Re: Dorking: the use of search engines to find very specific data
#8This is a pretty common practice among SEOs for a variety of different reasons. They are also known as advanced search operators.
Ahrefs has a pretty comprehensive list here: https://ahrefs.com/blog/google-advanced-search-operators/
Re: Dorking: the use of search engines to find very specific data
#9Exploit database with more dorks
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#10Why doesn't google.com have a comprehensive list of these? I'm constantly seeing new ones that I didn't know about, but google never teaches you about them so you have to find them in obscure blog posts
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