Google Hacks
Google Hacking
Google Hacking is the 'art' of using Google.com's ability to
recall mass amounts of data, to enter directories, find 'secrets' of the web
and even attain personal, revealing or illegal information, such as
passwords. Using Google's language for detailed searching, including
characters like "+", "." and "/".
The power of Google to expose loops and holes in websites was very much
publicised by the 'hacker' Johnny Long, mostly know by his alias "j0hnny".
He published his wisdom and knowledge through books, and his very own
website,
http://johnny.ihackstuff.com/.
Google Hacks from O'Reilly Media.
Basics
What defines a normal 'search' on Google from a hack is the insertion of
special characters of processes.
e.g: intitle:Wikipedia
Typing the above into a Google searchbar and clicking enter would produce
results that have the word 'Wikipedia' in the title (inserted via the
<title> code in html) which appear in the top of a browser.
Words can also be excluded from a search, thus making sure they do not
appear in any result.
e.g: intitle:wikipedia -house
The "-house" statement bars any result with "house" in it. Therefore, the
word "house" would not appear in any result.
Books
Google Hacks: 100 Industrial-Strength Tips and
Tools (ISBN
0-596-00447-8) is a book of tips about Google, a popular Internet
search engine, by Tara Calishain and Rael
Dornfest. The book was published by O'Reilly in February 2003. It covers
tips of all kinds, from usage hints for the novice just using Google, to
advice for the expert programming the Google Web API. Most programming
examples are written in Perl.
The second edition was published in December, 2004 (ISBN 0-596-00857-0).
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