Google hacking

Table 1. Google query operators

site restricts results to sites within the site:google.com fox will find all sites containing the
specified domain word fox, located within the *.google.com domain
intitle restricts results to documents whose intitle:fox fire will find all sites with the word fox in the
title contains the specified phrase title and fire in the text
allintitle restricts results to documents allintitle:fox fire will find all sites with the words fox
whose title contains all the specified and fire in the title, so it's equivalent to intitle:fox
phrases intitle:fire

inurl restricts results to sites whose URL inurl:fox fire will find all sites containing the word fire
contains the specified phrase in the text and fox in the URL

allinurl restricts results to sites whose URL allinurl:fox fire will find all sites with the words fox
contains all the specified phrases and fire in the URL, so it's equivalent to inurl:fox
inurl:fire

filetype, ext restricts results to documents of the filetype:pdf fire will return PDFs containing the word
specified type fire, while filetype:xls fox will return Excel spreadsheets
with the word fox

numrange restricts results to documents con- numrange:1-100 firewill return sites containing a number
taining a number from the specified from 1 to 100 and the word fire. The same result can be
range achieved with 1..100 fire

link restricts results to sites containing link:www.google.com will return documents containing
links to the specified location one or more links to www.google.com

inanchor restricts results to sites containing inanchor:fire will return documents with links whose
links with the specified phrase in description contains the word fire (that's the actual link
their descriptions text, not the URL indicated by the link)

allintext restricts results to documents con- allintext:"fire fox" will return documents which con-
taining the specified phrase in the tain the phrase fire fox in their text only
text, but not in the title, link descrip-
tions or URLs

+ specifies that a phrase should occur +firewill order results by the number of occurrences of
frequently in results the word fire

- specifies that a phrase must not oc- -fire will return documents that don't contain the word
cur in results fire

"" delimiters for entire search phrases "fire fox" will return documents containing the phrase
(not single words) fire fox

. wildcard for a single character fire.fox will return documents containing the phrases
fire fox, fireAfox, fire1fox, fire-fox etc.
* wildcard for a single word fire * fox will return documents containing the phrases
fire the fox, fire in fox, fire or fox etc.

| logical OR "fire fox" | firefox will return documents containing the

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