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# Search Engine Operators

## Overview

Search engines are great first steps for looking into an organization or person. Different kinds of "operators" can be use to narrow down results making information gathering easier.

## Search Engines

* Google
* DuckDuckGo
* Bing
* Yandex
* Baidu

## Operators

Only results from a **single website**

```
Yale calculus site:reddit.com
```

**AND** & **OR** operators

```
Yale AND calculus site:reddit.com
```

```
Yale OR calculus site:reddit.com
```

Only results with this **specific** string, in the order exactly

```
"Yale calculus" site:reddit.com
```

The three put together

```
Yale AND calculus AND "professor james" site:reddit.com
```

Using **wildcards \*** 

```
"heath adams" the * mentor
```

Hunting down passwords

```
site:tesla.com password
```

```
site:tesla.com filetype:pdf password
site:tesla.com filetype:xlsx pass
site:tesla.com filetype:docx credentials
```

```
"tesla.com" filetype:xlsx password
```

Finding subdomains using the **-(minus)** operator

```
site:tesla.com -www
```

```
site:tesla.com -www -forums
```

Find keywords in text, URL or title

```
"Kevin Hart" site:twitter.com intext:tall
```

```
"Kevin Hart" inurl:tall
```

```
"Kevin Hart" intitle:tall
```

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Operator Cheatsheet
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