Tips On Google Search !! Very Useful !!

Hello guyz!!

This is an important discussion about how to search in google for different results. As we know the google is a powerful search option for all known as r best friend , but how it work?. Here we go..

Google combines PageRank with sophisticated text-matching techniques to find pages that are both important and relevant to your search. Google tries to match your query by manipulating huge functions like how many times the term appears on the page and examines it. This makes a google a powerful search engine and user friendly.

We can search the google by using deferent operators that are defined by google.

Five Tips On Google Search

Sometimes when you search on Google you might not get the desired results or you might need to search a lot by changing the keywords you are searching for.

1. The “+” Sign : Google ignores some words like the, how and many other digits and words which actually slow down the search speed. Now if a common word is essential for you and you want google to look for it the just give a space, put the “+” sign and type in the word. By this google makes sure that, that word is actually included in the search as well. I came to knew of this as i was searching for a Book, but google was not showing the desired results, i used this technique and was able to get the details I was looking for.

2. Synonym Search with “~”(Tildy) Sign : If in case you want to search for the term as well it’s synonym, then in that case just add the “~” sign just in front of your term, you will then see the links for the same terms synonym. This can be really helpful in case you are searching for some specific results

3. Use of Keyword “OR” : In case you want the search results to show two different categories then in that case you can use the Keyword “OR”. This will make sure that you will get the results accordingly. Similarly you can also use “AND”, but in this case google will show you pages where both the parameters are met, whereas in case of keyword “OR”, any parameter that matches up, those links will be displayed.

4. Getting links of Specific Site : Sometimes you might visit a site but not able to find the links or accurate pages in that site. What do you do? Just click on links to get the specific page? Well a simple answer is search through Google. Suppose you want to search for groups site in google.com, then simple type in “groups site:google.com”. You will see op tins coming for the google groups. This is a pretty old method is very useful to get to a specific page of a site. The code for this would be “site:”

5. Search within a Range : You can search in Google within a desired range be it be Money, Weight, Age or any thing else, you just need to define the range and you will get the results you require. You need to type in the range as separated by “..”. But make sure you specify the unit as well like for money, weight, length or any thing else. Like, for Example:- TV 21..32 inches

Let us know what are the elements, functions and factors involve in the part of search.

Google Operators:
Operators are used to refine the results and to maximize the search value. They are your tools as well as ethical hackers’ weapons
Basic Operators:

+, -, ~ , ., *, “”, |,


Advanced Operators:
allintext:, allintitle:, allinurl:, bphonebook:, cache:, define:, filetype:, info:, intext:, intitle:, inurl:, link:, phonebook:, related:, rphonebook:, site:, numrange:, daterange

(+) force inclusion of something common
Google ignores common words (where, how, digit, single letters) by default:

Example: StarStar Wars Episode +I

(-) exclude a search term
Example: apple –red

(“) use quotes around a search term to search exact phrases:
Example: “Robert Masse”
Robert masse without “” has the 309,000 results, but “robert masse” only has 927 results. Reduce the 99% irrelevant results

(~) search synonym:
Example: ~food
Return the results about food as well as recipe, nutrition and cooking information

( . ) a single-character wildcard:
Example: m.trix
Return the results of M@trix, matrix, metrix…….

( * ) any word wildcard

Advanced Operators: “Site:”
Site: Domain_name :: Find Web pages only on the specified domain. If we search a specific site, usually we get the Web structure of the domain

Examples:
site:http://studentshangout.com
Advanced Operators: “Filetype:”

Filetype: extension_type : Find documents with specified extensions

The supported extensions are:

- HyperText Markup Language (html) - Microsoft PowerPoint (ppt)
- Adobe Portable Document Format (pdf) - Microsoft Word (doc)
- Adobe PostScript (ps) - Microsoft Works (wks, wps, wdb)
- Lotus 1-2-3 - Microsoft Excel (xls)
(wk1, wk2, wk3, wk4, wk5, wki, wks, wku) - Microsoft Write (wri)
- Lotus WordPro (lwp) - Rich Text Format (rtf)
- MacWrite (mw) - Shockwave Flash (swf)
- Text (ans, txt)

Note: We actually can search asp, php and cgi, pl files as long as it is text-compatible.

Example: Budget filetype: xls
Advanced Operators “Intitle:”

Intitle: search_term :: Find search term within the title of a Webpage

Allintitle: search_term1 search_term2 search_term3
Find multiple search terms in the Web pages with the title that includes all these words
These operators are specifically useful to find the directory lists

Example:
Find directory list: Intitle: Index.of “parent directory”


Searching google: The following are syntaxes and corresponding examples try them


Advanced Operators “Inurl:”

Find search term in a Web address
Inurl: search_term

Find multiple search terms in a Web address
Allinurl: search_term1 search_term2 search_term3

Examples:
Inurl: cgi-bin
Allinurl: cgi-bin password
Advanced Operators “Intext;”

Find search term in the text body of a document.
Intext: search_term

Find multiple search terms in the text body of a document.
Allintext: search_term1 search_term2 search_term3

Examples:
Intext: Administrator login
Allintext: Administrator login
Advanced Operators: “Cache:”

Find the old version of Website in Google cache
Cache: URL
Sometimes, even the site has already been updated, the old information might be found in cache

Examples:
Cache: http://yahoo.com

Advanced Operators:
Conduct a number range search by specifying two numbers, separated by two periods, with no spaces. Be sure to specify a unit of measure or some other indicator of what the number range represents

Examples:
Computer $500..1000
DVD player $250..350
Advanced Operators: “Daterange:”

Daterange: - :: Find the Web pages between start date and end date

Note: start_date and end date use the Julian date
The Julian date is calculated by the number of days since January 1, 4713 BC. For example, the Julian date for August 1, 2001 is 2452122

Examples:
2004.07.10=2453196
2004.08.10=2453258
Vulnerabilities date range: 2453196-2453258

Advanced Operators “Link:”

Link: URL :: Find the Web pages having a link to the specified URL

Related: URL :: Find the Web pages that are “similar” to the specified Web page

info: URL :: Present some information that Google has about that Web page

Define: search_term :: Provide a definition of the words gathered from various online sources

Examples:
Link: yahoo.com
Related: yahoo.com
Info: yahoo.com

Define: Network security - Advanced Operators “phonebook:”

rphonebook :: Search residential listings only
bphonebook :: Search business listings only
Phonebook :: Search the entire Google phonebook

Examples:
Phonebook: robert las vegas (robert in Las Vegas)
Phonebook: (702) 944-2001 (reverse search, not always work)

The phonebook is quite limited to U.S.A. But the Question rises What can Google can do for an Ethical Hacker? Search sensitive information like payroll, SIN, even the personal email box

Vulnerabilities scanner ::Transparent proxy

So how but if i tell u a different way to search
k lets do this type in the following statements n c d results
I can only provide u the guidelines, now u need to implement your Creativity to Keep it rolling.

http://yahoo.com
Salary
Salary filetype: xls site: edu

Security social insurance number
Intitle: Payroll intext: ssn filetype: xls site: edu

Security Social Insurance Number
Payroll intext: Employee intext: ssn Filetype: xls
Filetype: xls “checking account” “credit card” - intext: Application -intext:
Form (only 39 results)

Financial Information
Intitle: “Index of” finances.xls (9)

Personal Mailbox
Intitle: Index.of inurl: Inbox (inurl: User OR inurl: Mail) (220)

Confidential Files
“not for distribution” confidential (1,760)
Confidential Files
“not for distribution” confidential filetype: pdf (marketing info) (456)

OS Detection
Use the keywords of the default installation page of a Web server to search.
Use the title to search

Use the footer in a directory index page
OS Detection-Windows
“Microsoft-IIS/5.0 server at”


OS Detection - Windows
Default web page?
Intitle: “Welcome to Windows 2000 Internet Services” IIS 5.0

OS Detection –Apache 1.3.11-1.3.26
Intitle: Test.Page.for.Apache seeing.this.instead

OS Detection-Apache SSL enable
Intitle: Test.page “SSL/TLS-aware” (127)

Search Passwords
Search the well known password filenames in URL
Search the database connection files or configuration files to find a password and username
Search specific username file for a specific product

Inurl: etc inurl: passwd
Intitle: “Index of..etc” passwd
Inurl: admin.pwd filetype: pwd
Filetype: inc dbconn
Filetype: inc intext: mysql_connect
Filetype: ini +ws_ftp +pwd (get the encrypted passwords)
Filetype: log inurl: “password.log”


Search Username
+intext: "webalizer" +intext: “Total Usernames” +intext: “Usage Statistics for”

License Key
Filetype: lic lic intext: key (33) (license key)

Sensitive Directories Listing
Powerful buzz word: Index of
Search the well known vulnerable directories names

Sensitive Directories Listing
“index of cgi-bin” (3590)

Sensitive Directories Listing
Intitle: “Index of” cfide (coldfusion directory)

Sensitive Directories Listing
Intitle: index.of.winnt

Get the serial number you need ! (Works for most of the products)
1) Go to Google.

2) Use Keyword as "Product name" 94FBR

3) Where, "Product Name" is the name of the item you want to find the serial number for.

4) And voila - there you go - the serial number you needed.

HOW DOES THIS WORK?

Quite simple really. 94FBR is part of a Office 2000 Pro cd key that is widely distributed as it bypasses the activation requirements of Office 2K Pro. By searching for the product name and 94fbr, you guarantee two things. 1) The pages that are returned are pages dealing specifically with the product you're wanting a serial for. 2) Because 94FBR is part of a serial number, and only part of a serial number, you guarantee that any page being returned is a serial number list page.

See these example searches:
Code:

"Photoshop 7"+94FBR
"Age of Mythology"+94FBR
"Nero Burning Rom 5.5"+94FBR

Final Touch:: try these keyword strings
you can search files on Rapidshare server too.

Just go to Google.com and punch “site:rapidshare.com” followed by:

“inurl:pdf” for Ebooks in PDF Format
“inurl:avi|wmv|mpg|nva” for Movies
“inurl:mp3|ogg|wma” for Audio Files
“inurl:exe” for executable application
“inurl:zip|rar|7zip|tar” for RAR, ZIP, 7ZIP or TAR compressed archieve

Examples:

If your searching for Google Earth in ZIP format, then you must search for “site:rapidshare.com inurl:googleearth” (obviously without the quotes)

Similarly if your searching for XYZ video, then it should be something like “site:rapidshare.com nurl:avi|wmv|mpg|nva XYZ”

For finding PHP scripts in web:
php.null intitle:"index of /"


String to find out private pictures directories:

Try this little code in Google, you may find lot of Non public pictures

intitle:index.of +"Indexed by Apache::Gallery"