Section 02: Footprinting through Search Engines

Google Hacking

Google hacking, also named Google dorking, is a hacker technique that uses Google Search and other Google applications to find security holes in the configuration and computer code that websites are using.

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Google Hacking Database (GHDB)

The GHDB is an index of search queries (we call them dorks) used to find publicly available information, intended for pentesters and security researchers.

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Metasearch Engine

A metasearch engine (or search aggregator) is an online information retrieval tool that uses the data of a web search engine to produce its own results.

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