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      1 # Dorking
      2 
      3 **Source:** Using search engines propery by Josh Blais
      4 
      5 **Definition:** Using advanced search operators in search engines to find targeted information.
      6 
      7 ## Example Keywords
      8 
      9 ### Site
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     11 site:{site name}
     12 
     13 ### Time
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     15 before:2020-01-01 after:2016
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     17 Not supported by duckduckgo.
     18 
     19 ### Full text
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     21 "This is a full text search of all of these words in this order"
     22 
     23 ### Exclusion
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     25 -python -java -javascript -ai -llm tech news
     26 
     27 ### Wildcard
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     29 St. * Cathedral Montreal
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     31 Attempts to match on the string, upweighting instances where there are words between St. and Cathedral.
     32 
     33 ### Related
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     35 emacs related:joshblais.com
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     37 Returns sites similar to the site "joshblais.com".
     38 
     39 ### Define
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     41 define:theosis
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     43 Give the definition of the term theosis.
     44 
     45 ### Filetype
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     47 filetype:pdf Deepseek v2
     48 
     49 ### Booleans
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     51 Default is generally AND, but you may specify OR as follows
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     53 NixOS OR Guix
     54 
     55 ### Proximity Search
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     57 OpenAI AROUND(3) mythos
     58 
     59 ### Text Location
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     61 inurl:wiki permanent record intitle:"security" before:2019
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     63 inurl specifies text must exist in the url. Similarly, intitle requires text to be in the title.
     64 
     65 ### Ranges
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     67 nsa backdoors 2012..2019
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     69 Specify numeric ranges with ".."
     70 
     71 ## Generality
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     73 Google's search engine supports these dorks, and it should generally be the case other search engines do as well. Despite this, it hasn't been my experience this is always the case. One of the most useful dorks, specifying date ranges, seems unsupported by duckduckgo.