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

Google Advanced Searchwww.google.com

Operator Cheatsheet