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X-Ray Search
It is a method of looking inside a specific website to find specific information. It is also
called as “Site Search”.
We can find the data, web pages, documents that aren’t directly accessible via links on
the main public home page using x-ray/site search.
X-Ray search is prepared with combination of Advance search operators (like site:, inurl:,
intitle:, etc) and Boolean search operators (like NOT, AND, OR,*,etc).
Please note: The Advance Search Operators are used in small letters and the Boolean
Search Operators are used in capital letters.
Search Operators:
A search operator (sometimes referred to as a search parameter) is a character or string of
characters used in a search engine query to narrow the focus of the search
In mathematics and computer science, operators are characters or sequences of characters
that represent an action or cause an action to be performed. Boolean operators are
commonly used in search. Like we saw AND, for example, indicates that Web pages in the
results must contain both the word or phrase preceding it and the word (or phrase)
following it. NOT indicates that pages in search results should not contain the word or
phrase after it, OR indicates that the pages in search results should include any of the
terms on either side in the query rather than pages that contain both or all terms.
Other search operators are usually placed directly in front of a query word or phrase, with no intervening
space. Multiple operators can be combined in a query to further narrow the focus of a search.
Here are a few examples of advanced Google search operators:
site: followed (without a space) by a website or domain returns files located there.
filetype: followed by a file extension returns files of the specified type, such as DOC, PDF, XLS
and INI. Multiple file types can be searched for simultaneously by separating extensions with “|”.
inurl: followed by a particular string returns results with that sequence of characters in the URL.
intext: followed by the searcher’s chosen word or phrase returns files with the string
anywhere in the text.
Search operators can be combined in a search query to fine-tune a search. A complex
search engine query is sometimes referred to as a Google dork query, is sometimes used
to find information that is not purposefully made available by a site owner. The practice,
also known as Google hacking.
