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Search engines

It is said that the internet never forgets. If you want to know something, knowing the right way to ask might get you almost all the information you want. Google, the dominant search engine, is a key tool for a social engineer that is used to unearth information about targets on the internet. We will go over some of the search phrases that social engineers use to hunt for information about targets using Google:

1. To search for a target's information within a specific domain such as a corporate site, the following query could be used:

Site: www.websitename.com "John Doe"

If anything about John Doe is contained in the website, Google will index it in the search results of the query.

2. To search for a target's information in the ...