Home google. Make Google your main search engine
Every day we search for something on Google. I probably google something 200 times a day. I check any information, learn something new, instantly find the answer to my question. There was a question - I drove it into the search line - I got the result. What could be easier? But sometimes there are difficulties in finding specific information. A few tricks will help you always find what you are looking for.
We have already written about the secrets of Google search more than once. I decided to check out what tricks are still working and refresh your memory a bit.
Search for a specific phrase
Sometimes it is necessary to find a phrase exactly in the form in which we enter it. For example, when we are looking for the lyrics of a song, but we know only one phrase from it. In this case, you need to enclose this phrase in quotation marks.
Search by specific site
Google is a great search engine. And often it is better than the built-in search on sites. That is why it is more rational to use Google to search for information on a website. To do this, enter site:lenta.ru Putin made.
Finding words in text
If you need all the words of the query to be in the text of the results found, type in front of it allintext:.
If one query word should be in the body and the rest anywhere on the page, including the title or URL, precede the word intext:, and write the rest before that.
Search for words in the title
If you want all query words to be in the title, use the phrase allintitle:.
If only part of the request should be in the header, and the rest - elsewhere in the document or page, put title:.
Searching for words in a URL
To find pages that have your query in their URL, type allinurl:.
Search news for a specific location
If you need news on a specific topic from a specific location, use location: to search Google News.
Search with some number of missing words
You need to find a sentence in a document or article, but you only remember the words at the beginning and at the end. Enter your query and indicate the approximate number of words between the words you remember. It looks like this: "Near the seaside AROUND (5) is an oak tree."
Search if you forgot a word or number
Forgot a word from a saying, song, quote? No problem. Google will still help you find it. Put an asterisk (*) in place of the forgotten word.
Search for sites that link to the site you are interested in
This item is useful for blog or website owners. If you are wondering who is linking to your site or even to a particular page, then just enter link:website.
Exclude results with unwanted word
Let's imagine a situation. You have decided to go on vacation to the islands. And you don't want to go to the Maldives at all. To prevent Google from showing them in search results, you just need to enter "Island holidays - Maldives". That is, put a minus before the word Maldives.
You want to find all your competitors. Or you really like the site, but there is not enough material on it, and you want more and more. Enter related:lenta.ru and enjoy the result.
Search "either-or"
There are situations when you need to find information about two people at once. For example, you want to laugh at Vova, but have not decided which one - Zelensky or something else. It is enough to enter "Vladimir Zelensky | Zhirinovsky", and you will get the result you need. Instead of the symbol "|" you can enter English OR.
Finding different words in the same sentence
To find relationships between objects, or just to look for mentions of two individuals together, you can use the "&" symbol. Example: Freud & Jung.
Search by synonyms
If you're as lazy as I am, then you don't have the patience to google multiple times for different synonyms for the same word. For example, cheap firewood. The "~" character can make your life a lot easier. We write “~cheap firewood” and get results for the words “cheap”, “inexpensive”, “affordable” and so on.
Search in a specific range of numbers
A very useful Google search secret if you need to find, for example, events that happened in certain years, or prices in a certain range. Just put two dots between the numbers. Google will search in this range.
Search for files of a specific format
If you need to find some document or just a file of a certain format, Google can help you here too. Just add at the end of your request filetype:doc and instead doc substitute the format you need.
10 more useful features
1. Google can work as a good calculator. To do this, simply enter the desired operation in the search box.
2. If you want to know the meaning of a word, and not just look at pages on the topic, add to the word define or "meaning".
3. You can use the search engine as a unit and currency converter. To call the converter, type a query with a translation, for example, "centimeters to meters."
4. With Google, you can check the weather and time without having to go to websites. Type in the queries “weather “city of interest””, “time “city of interest””.
5. To view the results and schedule of matches of a sports team, simply type its name in the search engine.
6. To translate a word into any language, write in the search bar "translate the "desired word" into English (any other) language".
7. For the query "sunrise" city of interest "" Google shows the time of sunrise and sunset (for the latter - the corresponding query).
8. cache:site.com- sometimes a very helpful function of searching for a site in the Google cache. For example, when newsmen delete news. They can be read thanks to Google.
9. If you enter a flight number in the search box, Google gives you full information about it.
10. To see a table with quotes for a specific company, simply enter the query “stocks of the company of interest”, for example, “Apple stocks”.
If you have your own ways to use Google more effectively and find the information you need faster, share your tips in the comments to this article.
Receiving private data does not always mean hacking - sometimes it is published in the public domain. Knowing the Google settings and a little ingenuity will allow you to find a lot of interesting things - from credit card numbers to FBI documents.
WARNING
All information is provided for informational purposes only. Neither the editors nor the author are responsible for any possible harm caused by the materials of this article.Everything is connected to the Internet today, caring little about restricting access. Therefore, many private data become the prey of search engines. Spider robots are no longer limited to web pages, but index all content available on the Web and constantly add confidential information to their databases. Learning these secrets is easy - you just need to know how to ask about them.
Looking for files
In capable hands, Google will quickly find everything that is bad on the Web, such as personal information and files for official use. They are often hidden like a key under a rug: there are no real access restrictions, the data just lies in the back of the site, where links do not lead. The standard Google web interface provides only basic advanced search settings, but even these will be enough.
There are two operators you can use to restrict Google searches to files of a certain type: filetype and ext . The first sets the format that the search engine determined by the file header, the second - the file extension, regardless of its internal content. When searching in both cases, you need to specify only the extension. Initially, the ext operator was convenient to use in cases where there were no specific format features for the file (for example, to search for ini and cfg configuration files, which can contain anything). Now Google's algorithms have changed, and there is no visible difference between the operators - the results are the same in most cases.
Filtering the output
By default, Google searches for words and in general for any characters entered in all files on indexed pages. You can limit the search scope by the top-level domain, a specific site, or by the location of the desired sequence in the files themselves. For the first two options, the site statement is used, followed by the name of the domain or the selected site. In the third case, a whole set of operators allows you to search for information in service fields and metadata. For example, allinurl will find the specified in the body of the links themselves, allinanchor - in the text provided with the tag , allintitle - in the page headers, allintext - in the body of the pages.
For each operator there is a lighter version with a shorter name (without the prefix all). The difference is that allinurl will find links with all words, while inurl will only find links with the first of them. The second and subsequent words from the query can appear anywhere on web pages. The inurl operator also differs from another similar in meaning - site . The first one also allows you to find any sequence of characters in the link to the desired document (for example, /cgi-bin/), which is widely used to find components with known vulnerabilities.
Let's try it in practice. We take the allintext filter and make the query return a list of credit card numbers and verification codes, which will expire only after two years (or when their owners get tired of feeding everyone in a row).
Allintext: card number expiration date /2017 cvv 
When you read on the news that a young hacker "hacked into the servers" of the Pentagon or NASA, stealing classified information, then in most cases it is precisely this elementary technique of using Google. Suppose we are interested in a list of NASA employees and their contact details. Surely such a list is in electronic form. For convenience or due to an oversight, it can also lie on the organization's website itself. It is logical that in this case there will be no references to it, since it is intended for internal use. What words can be in such a file? At least - the field "address". Checking all these assumptions is easy.
inurl:nasa.gov filetype:xlsx "address"
We use bureaucracy
Such finds are a pleasant trifle. The really solid catch comes from a more detailed knowledge of Google Webmaster Operators, the Web itself, and the structure of what you're looking for. Knowing the details, you can easily filter the output and refine the properties of the files you need in order to get really valuable data in the rest. It's funny that bureaucracy comes to the rescue here. It produces typical formulations, according to which it is convenient to search for secret information accidentally leaked onto the Web.
For example, the Distribution statement, which is mandatory in the office of the US Department of Defense, means standardized restrictions on the distribution of a document. The letter A marks public releases in which there is nothing secret; B - intended for internal use only, C - strictly confidential, and so on up to F. Separately, there is the letter X, which marks especially valuable information that represents a state secret of the highest level. Let those who are supposed to do it on duty look for such documents, and we will limit ourselves to files with the letter C. According to DoDI 5230.24, such marking is assigned to documents containing a description of critical technologies that fall under export control. You can find such carefully guarded information on sites in the .mil top-level domain allocated to the US Army.
"DISTRIBUTION STATEMENT C" inurl:navy.mil 
It is very convenient that only sites from the US Department of Defense and its contract organizations are collected in the .mil domain. Domain-limited search results are exceptionally clean, and the titles speak for themselves. It is practically useless to search for Russian secrets in this way: chaos reigns in the .ru and .rf domains, and the names of many weapons systems sound like botanical (PP "Kiparis", self-propelled guns "Acacia") or even fabulous (TOS "Pinocchio").
By carefully examining any document from a site in the .mil domain, you can see other markers to refine your search. For example, a reference to the export restrictions "Sec 2751", which is also convenient to search for interesting technical information. From time to time, it is removed from official sites, where it once appeared, so if you can’t follow an interesting link in the search results, use the Google cache (cache operator) or the Internet Archive website.
We climb into the clouds
In addition to accidentally declassified documents from government departments, links to personal files from Dropbox and other data storage services that create "private" links to publicly published data occasionally pop up in the Google cache. It's even worse with alternative and self-made services. For example, the following query finds the data of all Verizon clients that have an FTP server installed and actively using a router on their router.
Allinurl:ftp://verizon.net
There are now more than forty thousand such smart people, and in the spring of 2015 there were an order of magnitude more. Instead of Verizon.net, you can substitute the name of any well-known provider, and the more famous it is, the larger the catch can be. Through the built-in FTP server, you can see files on an external drive connected to the router. Usually this is a NAS for remote work, a personal cloud, or some kind of peer-to-peer file download. All the content of such media is indexed by Google and other search engines, so you can access files stored on external drives via a direct link.
Peeping configs
Before the wholesale migration to the clouds, simple FTP servers, which also lacked vulnerabilities, ruled as remote storages. Many of them are still relevant today. For example, the popular WS_FTP Professional program stores configuration data, user accounts, and passwords in the ws_ftp.ini file. It is easy to find and read because all entries are stored in plain text and passwords are encrypted using the Triple DES algorithm with minimal obfuscation. In most versions, simply discarding the first byte is sufficient.
Decrypting such passwords is easy using the WS_FTP Password Decryptor utility or a free web service.
When talking about hacking an arbitrary site, they usually mean getting a password from logs and backups of CMS or e-commerce application configuration files. If you know their typical structure, then you can easily indicate the keywords. Lines like those found in ws_ftp.ini are extremely common. For example, Drupal and PrestaShop always have a user ID (UID) and a corresponding password (pwd), and all information is stored in files with the .inc extension. You can search for them like this:
"pwd=" "UID=" ext:inc
We reveal passwords from the DBMS
In the configuration files of SQL servers, user names and email addresses are stored in clear text, and instead of passwords, their MD5 hashes are recorded. Decrypting them, strictly speaking, is impossible, but you can find a match among known hash-password pairs.
Until now, there are DBMSs that do not even use password hashing. The configuration files of any of them can simply be viewed in the browser.
Intext:DB_PASSWORD filetype:env 
With the advent of Windows servers, the place of configuration files was partly taken by the registry. You can search through its branches in exactly the same way, using reg as the file type. For example, like this:
Filetype:reg HKEY_CURRENT_USER "Password"= 
Don't Forget the Obvious
Sometimes it is possible to get to classified information with the help of data accidentally opened and caught by Google. The ideal option is to find a list of passwords in some common format. Store account information in text file, a Word document or an Excel spreadsheet can only be desperate people, but there are always enough of them.
Filetype:xls inurl:password 
On the one hand, there are many means to prevent such incidents. It is necessary to specify adequate access rights in htaccess, patch CMS, do not use left scripts and close other holes. There is also a file with a robots.txt exclusion list, which prohibits search engines from indexing the files and directories specified in it. On the other hand, if the robots.txt structure on some server differs from the standard one, then it immediately becomes clear what they are trying to hide on it.
The list of directories and files on any site is preceded by the standard inscription index of. Since it must appear in the title for service purposes, it makes sense to limit its search to the intitle operator. Interesting stuff can be found in the /admin/, /personal/, /etc/ and even /secret/ directories.
Follow the updates
Relevance is extremely important here: old vulnerabilities are closed very slowly, but Google and its search results are constantly changing. There is even a difference between the "last second" filter (&tbs=qdr:s at the end of the request url) and the "real time" filter (&tbs=qdr:1).
The time interval of the last file update date from Google is also implicitly indicated. Through the graphical web interface, you can select one of the typical periods (hour, day, week, and so on) or set a date range, but this method is not suitable for automation.
From the appearance of the address bar, one can only guess about a way to limit the output of results using the &tbs=qdr: construct. The letter y after it specifies a limit of one year (&tbs=qdr:y), m shows the results for the last month, w for the week, d for the past day, h for the last hour, n for the minute, and s for the give me a sec. The most recent results just made known to Google are found using the &tbs=qdr:1 filter.
If you need to write a tricky script, it will be useful to know that the date range is set in Google in Julian format through the daterange operator. For example, this is how you can find a list of PDF documents with the word confidential uploaded between January 1st and July 1st, 2015.
Confidential filetype:pdf daterange:2457024-2457205
The range is specified in Julian date format without decimals. It is inconvenient to translate them manually from the Gregorian calendar. It's easier to use a date converter.
Targeting and filtering again
In addition to specifying additional operators in the search query, they can be sent directly in the link body. For example, the filetype:pdf trait corresponds to the as_filetype=pdf construct. Thus, it is convenient to set any clarifications. Let's say that the output of results only from the Republic of Honduras is set by adding the construction cr=countryHN to the search URL, but only from the city of Bobruisk - gcs=Bobruisk . See the developer section for a complete list of .
Google's automation tools are designed to make life easier, but often add to the hassle. For example, a user's city is determined by the user's IP through WHOIS. Based on this information, Google not only balances the load between servers, but also changes the search results. Depending on the region, for the same query, different results will get to the first page, and some of them may turn out to be completely hidden. Feel like a cosmopolitan and search for information from any country will help its two-letter code after the directive gl=country . For example, the code for the Netherlands is NL, while the Vatican and North Korea do not have their own code in Google.
Often search results are littered even after using a few advanced filters. In this case, it is easy to refine the query by adding a few exception words to it (each of them is preceded by a minus sign). For example, banking , names , and tutorial are often used with the word Personal. Therefore, cleaner search results will show not a textbook example of a query, but a refined one:
Intitle:"Index of /Personal/" -names -tutorial -banking
Last Example
A sophisticated hacker is distinguished by the fact that he provides himself with everything he needs on his own. For example, a VPN is a convenient thing, but either expensive or temporary and with limitations. Subscribing for yourself alone is too expensive. It's good that there are group subscriptions, and with the help of Google it's easy to become part of a group. To do this, just find the Cisco VPN configuration file, which has a rather non-standard PCF extension and a recognizable path: Program Files\Cisco Systems\VPN Client\Profiles . One request, and you join, for example, the friendly staff of the University of Bonn.
Filetype:pcf vpn OR Group 
INFO
Google finds configuration files with passwords, but many of them are encrypted or replaced with hashes. If you see strings of a fixed length, then immediately look for a decryption service.The passwords are stored in encrypted form, but Maurice Massard has already written a program to decrypt them and provides it for free through thecampusgeeks.com.
With the help of Google, hundreds of different types of attacks and penetration tests are performed. There are many options, affecting popular programs, major database formats, numerous PHP vulnerabilities, clouds, and so on. Knowing exactly what you're looking for makes it much easier to get the information you need (especially the information you didn't intend to make public). Not only Shodan feeds interesting ideas, but any database of indexed network resources!
In this tutorial, we will look at searching by photo using the Google Pictures service. We will learn how to search by keywords, by a photo from a computer or phone, by an image on a website.
By keywords
one . We open the site images.google.ru. In the search bar, type what we want to find, and press the Enter key on the keyboard.
2. Photos and drawings found on request will appear. We go down using the wheel on the mouse or the slider on the right side.
3 . To see the image in normal (large) size, click on it with the left mouse button. As a result, it increases.
four . To download it, right-click inside and select "Save image as ..." or a similar item from the list. A small window will appear in which we select a suitable location for this snapshot on the computer, and click the "Save" button.
Image from your computer
How it works. You add a photo or drawing from your computer to the service, and Google finds copies of it on the Internet, as well as similar images.
When it's needed. For example, to find out who exactly is shown in the picture or to find similar photos. And also to find the same photo, but in a larger size.
Also, this method helps to recognize the scammer. For example, when meeting social network you can check if the photo really belongs to this person.
Method 1
- Go to images.google.com
- Open the folder on your computer where the photo is located. For convenience, we make the window smaller (not full screen).
- Click the left mouse button on the file and, without releasing it, drag it into the search window.
The image is added and the results are shown immediately. There will be duplicate photos (if they are on the Internet), as well as pages where it occurs, and similar images. In general, different information about this file.
Method 2
If it was not possible to drag the picture into the window, you can add it there in another way:
one . We open the site images.google.ru
2. Click on the camera icon at the end of the search bar.
3 . In the window, select the "Upload file" tab and click on the "Select file" button.
four . A small window will open, through which we find and open the desired image from our computer (for this, simply double-click on it with the left mouse button).
Based on a photo from a website or social network
It happens that you need to find an image not from your computer, but from some site. For example, from news on the Internet or from a page on a social network. Of course, you can first save it to your computer, and then add it to Google. But there is an easier option.
one . Expanding the image. To do this, we point the cursor at it and, if its appearance has changed to a hand with an outstretched finger, click once with the left mouse button.
2. We click on it (inside) with the right mouse button and select the item "Copy image URL" or "Copy image address" from the list.
Press settings icon Settings.
A new tab will open.
Google.
Add.
OK.
Press settings icon in the top right corner and select Settings.
A new tab will open.
Step 2: Make Google your default search
In the Search section, from the drop-down menu, select Google.
Step 3: Make Google your homepage
In the "Initial group" section, select "Next pages:" and click Add.
In the field that appears, enter www.site. Click OK.
Close the settings tab. Changes will be saved automatically.
Make Google your default search
Click down arrow on the left side of the search box.
Select Google in the drop down menu.
home page
Yes.
click on Firefox in the top left corner, then select Options, and then click on Options in the right menu.
Click on the General button in the top menu with the picture of a switch.
Next to When Firefox starts, open the drop down menu and select Show my home page.
Type www.site in the Home Page box, and click OK to save.
Step 1: Make Google your default search
Click down arrow on the left side of the search box.
Select Google in the drop down menu.
More: Make Google your homepage
Use your mouse to drag the blue Google icon shown below onto the icon. home page, located in the upper right corner of your browser.
Then in the popup click Yes.
…or change the start page manually
Select Firefox from the menu bar, then click on Preferences.
Type www.site in the Home Page box, and close the Preferences window to save.
Step 1Open your browser settings
Click safari from the Apple menu and choose Settings.
Step 2: Make Google your default search
drop down menu Basic search engine select Google.
Step 3: Make Google your homepage
Next to New windows open with, open the drop down menu and select home page. Open the next drop down menu and select home page to see your homepage in new tabs.
Then type www.site into the box next to home page.
Your changes are saved.
Step 1Open your browser settings
Click Opera in the top menu and select Settings, and then General settings.Preferences , Settings or Options. If the main menu has an item Service, click on it and select Internet Options.
Our advice: download , a fast and free browser. Google Chrome opens web pages and applications with lightning speed.
Google (Google) is the largest search engine on the Internet, launched in September 1998.
Google is owned by the American corporation Google Inc. and ranks first in the world in terms of popularity with an indicator of 77%.
Google.ru - Main page
Undoubtedly, the main function of Google.ru is to search for the necessary information on queries entered by users. In order to find the necessary information, the user only needs to enter the desired word, phrase or sentence in the search bar. After that, just press "Enter" on the keyboard or on the magnifying glass image directly on the site. By the way, in order to find the necessary information on the Internet, you can also use the portal.
It is quite convenient that when searching for the necessary information using Google.ru, the user can enter the desired queries not only directly from the keyboard of his device, but also use the on-screen keyboard or voice search, which is undoubtedly convenient and affordable.
Google.ru - On-Screen Keyboard
In order to be able to log into Gmail, YouTube, Google+ and other Google services, the user just needs to create an account. After that, using a single login and password for it, you can visit various Google services.
Google.ru - Create an account
It should be said right away that Google.ru has a lot of services and tools, each of which has its own purpose and application.
There are products whose task is to facilitate the work on the Internet. Among them is the well-known browser Google Chrome.
Google.ru - Google Chrome
Products for mobile devices(Search, Maps) and specifically for business, which include AdWords, AdMob, AdSense and others.
For those interested in multimedia, YouTube, Image Search and Video Search, Books, News and Picasa will be useful.
Google.ru - YouTube
Undoubtedly, the service will be useful Google Maps, which is a map and satellite imagery of the Earth. There is also a business directory and a road map.
Google.ru - Google Maps
These are just some of the services available. You can get acquainted with their full list directly on the Google.ru website by clicking on the "Services" icon located at the top of the page.
Google.ru - Tabs
For those who find this not enough and need even more information about Google.ru, it is worth visiting the tab called "All about Google", which is located at the bottom of the page.
Google.ru - Tabs
