Understanding Google-Fu

Google has to be one of the most notable search engines on the market. I personally used WebCrawler back in the Netscape days. I remember hearing that phrase Did you google it? for the first time in 2002 while I was fixing someone's PalmPilot. It might be a foregone conclusion that everyone reading this content has encountered the Google search engine at some point in their career. With that said, I am still going to relay some nuggets of truth: the Google search engine is a giant indexer, basically crawling the internet and documenting and historizing the data that it encounters. Now, this next statistic is purely speculative and has no quantifiable evidence; however, I am pretty confident that 99% of Google users have never really embraced the advanced features that Google has to offer.

Google dorking or Google hacking is simply a method of using Google's advanced search features to glean sensitive details from the internet. Combining and stringing...