TimsBlog

BASIC EXAMPLES   FINDS PAGES CONTAINING…

holiday travel   the words holiday and travel

Bermuda OR Greece   either the word Bermuda or the word Greece

“I have a dream”   the exact phrase I have a dream

salsa –dance   the word salsa but NOT the word dance

Star Wars Episode +I   this movie title, including the roman numeral I

Google ~Guide   Google info for both the word guide and its synonyms: help, tutorial, tips, etc. define:phishing   definitions of the word phishing from the Web

CALCULATOR   MEANING   TYPE INTO SEARCH BOX

+ – * /  

basic arithmetic   12 + 34 – 56 * 7 / 8 % of  

percentage of   45% of 39 ^ or **  

raise to a power   2^5 or 2**5 old units in new units  

convert units   300 Euros in USD, 130 lbs in kg, or 31 in hex

Then you have a bunch of more interesting operators like

inurl:   The terms must appear in the URL of the page.   inurl:print site:www.googleguide.com
(Search for pages on Google Guide in which the URL contains the word “print.”)

intitle:   The terms must appear in the title of the page.   flu shot intitle:help
(Search for pages with the words “flu” and “shot” that include “help” in the title of the page.)

For those feeling extra geeky there is http://johnny.ihackstuff.com/index.php?module=prodreviews

More or less google hacks. Hack meaning modifying something to do something it was not meant to do. Without a basic knowledge of how a website works on the internet these are confusing to understand. Most of these are to find weakness in websites or servers. Since googles core asset is its database of spidered websites this makes it most useful in finding folders, files and data bases that are not locked sown properly. BTW most of these will work on any search engine.

This one will search google for mp3’s by leonard skynrd

-inurl:htm -inurl:html intitle:”index of” mp3 “leonard Skynyrd “

This one will look for usernames and passords for porn paysites. The “*” being wild cards in the search. The URL for logining into a secure paysite is ussally

http://username:password@paypornsite.com

“http://*:*@www” bangbus or “http://*:*@www”bangbus