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All you want to know about Google Hacking


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. The GHDB is an index of search queries used to find publicly available information, intended for penetration testers and security researchers.

How to use it? 

1- Search inside specific website or domain.

 This way uses to retrieve all the information related to this website or domain.




 2- Search for a page that contains a specific title.

The second property is the ability to search for a specific page only related to an activity or activity such as programming, computer or information security.




3- Search for a file with specific extension.

Through this feature and the command used here can search for files with certain extensions only in the Google search engine.



4- Search for a specific phrase with the same precision and the same order of "words".

This feature depends on the search for more customization and fetching information related only to the written between the quotation marks.



For more tips about google hacking: Exploit-DB

Of course, this article is not enough to talk about the possibilities of the Google search engine. There are complete books and folders for this engine and its great possibilities for detailed search. All we wanted to do was to clarify what this anonymous engine is and how it works.

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