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Google hacking

Table 1.

Google

query operators

OperatorDescriptionSample query

site

restricts results to sites within the specied domain

site:google.com fox

 will nd all sites containing the word

fox 

, located within the

*.google.com

 domain

intitle

restricts results to documents whose title contains the specied phrase

intitle:fox re

 will nd all sites with the word

fox 

 in the title and

re

 in the text

allintitle

restricts results to documents whose title contains all the specied phrases

allintitle:fox re

 will nd all sites with the words

fox 

 and

re

 in the title, so it’s equivalent to

intitle:fox intitle:reinurl

restricts results to sites whose URL contains the specied phrase

inurl:fox re

 will nd all sites containing the word

re

 in the text and

fox 

 in the URL

allinurl

restricts results to sites whose URL contains all the specied phrases

allinurl:fox re

 will nd all sites with the words

fox 

 and

re

 in the URL, so it’s equivalent to

inurl:fox inurl:reletype, ext

restricts results to documents of the specied type

letype:pdf re

 will return PDFs containing the word re, while

letype:xls

 fox will return

Excel 

 spreadsheets with the word

fox 

numrange

restricts results to documents con-taining a number from the specied range

numrange:1-100 re

 will return sites containing a number from 1 to 100 and the word

re

. The same result can be achieved with

1..100 relink

restricts results to sites containing links to the specied location

link:www.google.com

 will return documents containing one or more links to

www.google.com

inanchor

restricts results to sites containing links with the specied phrase in their descriptions

inanchor:re

 will return documents with links whose description contains the word

re

 (that’s the actual link text, not the URL indicated by the link)

allintext

restricts results to documents con-taining the specied phrase in the text, but not in the title, link descrip-tions or URLs

allintext:”re fox”

 will return documents which con-tain the phrase

re fox 

 in their text only

+

species that a phrase should occur frequently in results

+re

 will order results by the number of occurrences of the word

re

–

species that a phrase must not oc-cur in results

-re

 will return documents that don’t contain the word

re

“”

delimiters for entire search phrases (not single words)

“re fox”

 will return documents containing the phrase

re fox 

.

wildcard for a single character 

re.fox

 will return documents containing the phrases

re fox 

,

reAfox 

,

re1fox 

,

re-fox 

 etc.

*

wildcard for a single word

re * fox

 will return documents containing the phrases re the

fox 

,

 re in fox 

,

re or fox 

 etc.

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logical OR

“re fox” | refox

 will return documents containing the phrase

re fox 

 or the word

refox