Satyam Pathania recounts first discovering the powers of Google Dorking on his 25th birthday in 2020.
Claiming it to be the most underappreciated tool for hackers, Pathania explains that Google Dorking is powerful for gathering hidden information and offers numerous variations in terms of data, databases, and platforms.
The article offers access to a detailed writeup on Google Dorking, hereinafter referred to as “The Article”.
The first step in one’s journey toward using the power of Google for more advanced searches and information gathering in this manner is to understand a baseline Google search.
The Article asserts that a mastered ability to tweak baseline searches with various operators, keywords, and target URLs will allow the user to gather nearly any type of information they are looking for.
This type of search is also referred to as advanced operator syntax, and The Article elucidates numerous use cases as well as distinct examples of each type of search.
The types of searches explained in the article include: niche site searches, inurl searches, intitle searches, intext searches, exclude searches, and finally, range searches.