Google Dorks | A Complete Guide For Beginners

Google Hacking or Google Dorking is a technique used to retrieve google search results effectively, a dork is a search operator that can be mixed with normal search queries to get better search results from search engines like Google, Bing and Duckduckgo

In this article, we will be covering the basic concepts of Google dorks and how to use them to save your time, energy and make your work smoother, let's see  how to do google dorking

By the end of this post, you will gain some basic knowledge on the following topics

• What is Google Dork
• How to use google dorks
• Google dorks for sql injection
• Advanced Google Dorking Commands

What Is Google Hacking and Google Dorks?

Google hacking or dorking is a combination of special search queries used to gather information from google in a quick way by using some special search operators called dorks, these dorks can be used on other search engines as well (including Bing, Duckduckgo)

While performing a search we can use these special operators to maximize the output results and get better search results

How Do I use Google Dorks?

Before you start to learn google hacking you should know how google hacking and google dorks help us

Normally if you search on google you will find thousands and even millions of results then you need to find out what you are exactly looking for, it really consumes some time If you use Dorks then you will find what you are exactly looking for in a quick way

as you know google is a popular search engine that serves several services and processes millions of searches results, google provides these search results not only to internet users but also provide this same information to Cybercriminals and terrorists, but that's not our topic in this article

okay now go to examples suppose If you want to download bahubali2 video then you will simply go to google and type bahubali 2 movie as a search query but Google will return thousands of results then you couldn't decide where the download link available If you use google dorks then you will find what you are exactly looking for observing the below image dorks are applied like this

Note: Bahubali is a popular Indian movie, you can search for anything while using dorks not just limited to Movies

 eg: intitle:"Bahubali 2" if you put this query in the search box then you will find all the titles related to Bahubali2

there are a lot of dorks that are used for the special purpose some of the google dorks and their usage explained.

These dorks are applied in the google search box you can replace anything you want to search between the quotes " "

intitle:"Title of anything"

intitle: this dork is used to find all the titles related to your search query

let's see another example, 

I want to search for useful javascript resources, for that, I will use the dork intitle to filter the search results and get the web pages whose title contains the keyword javascript resources

intitle:"Index of" this dork is used to find the main link eg for download link without any restrictions

let's see an example, I need some javascript resources again

for that, I will again search 

index of:/pdf/ javascript

inurl:"Url of your search query" inurl dork is used to crawl all the URLs of your search results

let's see I want to search for Bug Bounty programs using google dorks for that I will use inurl dork as

inurl /responsible-disclosure/ reward

note: you can use anything in the URL according to your requirements, but most of the hackers use inurl:php?id= to hunt SQL injection vulnerabilities

filetype:"Your search query for a file " filetype: This dork find outs the files as your desired file

lets see an example

I would like to search for PDF files related to javascript for that I will use the search query javascript filetype: pdf

other file types eg: filetype:".mp4" this will find outs only mp4 formated files you can replace any file formats eg .3gp, .pdf ,.mp3 ,.txt etc

Intext:"Your search query text" will return all search results with your desired text keyword


how to google dork a specific website

site:".co.in" the dork site: is used to filter from different domains, if you use .co.in then google will crawl search results only for .co.in websites

for example, I would like to search for the latest RCE vulnerability reports on hackerone.com website

you can use all the above dorks at once in the google search box only for special purpose
eg: intitle:"Index of" intext:"Bahubali2 Full movie" filetype:".Mp4" This command will bring results for Bahubali Full movie as Mp4 format

list of google operators

Operator	Description	Example
+word	This dork will return, all the mactching keywords not similar	+Phishing
-word	This will not include the word in search results	-Hacking
“word * word”	This will return anything between two words	“Apple * watch”
OR (or | )	This will return any one of the words	inurl:"/admin"
AND (or &)	This will return if the both keyword match available	intitle:Facebook & intitle:Hacking
*	This will return all available	site:*.com

google hacking cheat sheet

No	Dork	Description	Example
1	Intitle:	This dork will return, all the mactching titles with your keyword	intitle:"Hacking"
2	allintitle:	This is similar to intitle	allintitle:"Hacking"
3	intext	This will return all the maching content realted to your text	intext:"Sql injection"
4	inurl	This will return all the urls matching with the keyword	inurl:"/admin"
5	allinurl	This is similar to inurl	allinurl:"Sql injection"
6	site	Search for a specific site	site:facebook.com
7	filetype:	This will return all the files with your given extension	filetype:pdf
8	ext:	This is similar to filetype	ext:pdf
9	related:	This will return all the website similar to your site	related:google.com
10	“keyword”	This will retrn all the exact maching words	“Hacking”

Note: This Tutorial is Only For Educational Purpose

Hope you all understand what is google dorks and how they are used for information gathering from google

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