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Google Hacking

One resource we should not overlook when gathering information is search engines. In this section, we are going to focus specifically on Google and a process known as Google hacking. As it stands, Google is a very powerful tool for gathering information just by performing simple keyword searches, but what if you wanted to be more specific and fine-tune your searches to get better-quality results? Have you ever put a keyword or set of terms into the search box on google hoping to get that useful piece of information only to get several pages of results with very little, if anything, to do with what you were looking for? If you have, you are not alone with this problem, but the good news is that the use of Google hacking can ...