This document discusses various techniques, called "Google hacks", for efficiently searching Google. It covers basic operators like plus, minus, quotes, and, or signs. It also covers advanced operators like movie, define, weather, and site restrictions. The document provides examples of interesting searches and tools for anonymous Googling and protecting yourself from Google searches.

1. Google Hacks
How to Search Efficiently.
8th Aug 09 http://www.mumbaiitpro.org/

2. Google Hacks:
 What is Google Hacks ?
 Basic Operators
 Advanced Operators
 Directory Listing
 Interesting Searches
 Tool
 Anonymous Googling
 Protecting Yourself From Google

3. What is Google Hacks ?:
Google hacks is all about tricks for making best use of search
& making Google to perform searches that you cannot
perform using the regular Google search.

4. Basics: http://www.searchengineshowdown.com/ features/Google/
Including & Excluding Terms: Plus(+) and Minus(-) signs.
Eg: Russian Revolution
: Meat Free Recipes
: Russian Revolution –Industrial
: King –Akbar
Phrase Search: “ “ (Between The Codes).
Eg: "Russian Revolution“
: “US Constitution“
: “Meat Free" Recipes

5. Basics:
And & OR: &/|.
Eg: Holiday OR Vacation
: Akbar AND King is same as Akbar King
: Akbar OR King
Not Case Sensitive.
Eg: Shabbir is same as ShAbBiR
Synonyms (~).
Eg: ~Boat
This will get boat, marine, sailboat, Etc (Similar Meanings)

6. Basics:
Currency Converter.
Eg: 1 us dollars in Mexican peso
Measurement Conversion.
Eg: Cup in liters

7. Boolean Searching: Using Brackets & Operators.
http://www.searchengineshowdown.googleboolean.html
Eg: “Meat Free" Recipes Chinese OR Indian
: (Roman OR Greek) AND Mythology
: ((Roman OR Greek) AND Mythology) AND Dictionary
Eg : 2+((2*2)/2) OR 2+2*2/2 (Calculator)

8. Advanced Operators:
Operator:Search_Term
There's no space between the operator, the colon, and the search term.
Movie:<Movie Name>
Eg: Movie:Ghajni
Define:Word
Eg: Define:Cryptography
Weather:City, State
Eg: Weather:Mumbai, Maharashtra

11. Advanced Operators:
Link:<URL> (Popularity) (Link has limit) (Cannot Combine with Other Operator)
Eg: Link:www.microsoft.com
Numrange:<Number Range>
Eg: Numrange:100000-20000
Inurl:<URL>
Eg:

12. Advanced Operators:
Related:<URL> (Results Related To The URL Entered)
Eg: Related:www.faa.gov
Filetype:<File Extension> (Supports 12 File Formats)
Eg: Filetype:pdf form 1040
Cache:<URL>
Eg: Cache:www.cisco.com

13. Advanced Operators:
Site:<Website OR Domain Name>
Eg: Site:www.microsoft.com
: Site:microsoft.com -site:www.microsoft.com (32 Query Limit)
Intext:<Text>
Eg: Intext: ”Shabbir Ahmed”
Intitle:< >
Eg:Intitle:Culminis
author:<name/email address>
Eg:author:shabz

14. Directory Listing:
Eg:
intitle:index.of server.at
intitle:index.of server.at site:microsoft.com
intitle:index.of “parent directory”
intitle:index.of name size

15. Interesting Searches:
Eg:
filetype:bak
intitle:index.of .etc
intitle:”index.of “ config.php
allinurl:auth_user_file.txt
allinurl: admin mdb
allinurl:service.pwd
intitle:”Index of” passwords modified
intitle:”VNC Viewer for Java“

16. Interesting Searches:
Eg:
filetype:pst
filetype:xls username password email
filetype:eml + intext:”subject” + intext:”from”
filetype:reg reg + intext:”internet account manager”
inurl:8080 –intext:8080
“Access is denied for user” “using password”
intitle:”Error Occurred”
filetype:inc intext:mysql_connect

17. Interesting Searches:
Eg:
index.of.DCIM (digital Camera Image)
inurl:”level/15/exec/-/show” (Open Cisco Devices)
intitle:”Active Webcam page”

18. This table is taken from the book “Google Hacking for Penetration Testers”

19. Tool - Google Hacks:
DOWNLOAD
http://googlehacks.googlecode.com/files/GoogleHacksSetup1.6.exe

20. Anonymous Googling:
Cached
-Original
-Cached Text Only (&strip=1)
Google As a Proxy
-Translator

21. What Is “I Am Feeling Lucky” ?????

22. Protecting Yourself From Google:
Remove Your Site From Google’s Index
-http://www.google.com/remove.html
Robots.txt
-http://www.robotstxt.org

23. Thank You
Shabbir Ahmed
CCIE, MCT, CEH, CCSA.