This is a Moz educational guide explaining Google search operators, which are special characters and commands that extend the capabilities of standard Google text searches. The guide lists 62 advanced search operators, categorizes them by functionality status, outlines SEO and content research use cases, and provides example search strings for each operator.
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DisableAMP is an open source userscript developed by AdGuard that redirects supported AMP and Yandex Turbo pages to their original canonical non-AMP versions. It is compatible with AdGuard for Android and popular userscript managers including Violentmonkey, Tampermonkey and Greasemonkey. The script can rewrite AMP links before clicking, redirect AMP pages after load, and remove visible AMP indicators from rewritten links.
Yandex Search Operators collects search operators and dorks for advanced web searching and OSINT research.
Intelligence X is a provider of free open source intelligence (OSINT) and forensic tools for investigative use. The platform offers a suite of tools for searching third-party sites, performing social media intelligence on Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Telegram and YouTube, plus utilities for validating email addresses, looking up domains, IPs, Bitcoin addresses, images and other data types.
Telegram link for search engines updates, bots, resources, or community discussion.
Bookmarks is an OSINT Toolkit V2.1 collection of browser bookmarklets that enable open-source intelligence tasks directly from a web browser without requiring toolkit login. Included bookmarklets support functions such as extracting external links from the current page, conducting Facebook searches, highlighting specified text on pages, and retrieving webpage last modified dates.
Virgil Game Search is a beginner-friendly guide, reference, or tool for safer browsing, media, apps, or web resources.
Userscript for Custom Sidebar, adding browser customization or automation to supported websites.
Public AWS S3 & Azure Search is a cloud storage bucket search tool hosted at buckets.grayhatwarfare.com. It indexes public AWS S3, Azure Blob Storage, Digital Ocean Spaces, Google Cloud Platform, and Alibaba Cloud buckets and their contained files. Users can search via logical AND keyword queries, with keyword exclusion supported using the - prefix. A paid Buckets Stream addon provides live updates of newly discovered open buckets, valid private buckets, and unlisted Azure domains, with an API available for stream searches.
Searx Index is a search instance or metasearch resource for private web discovery.
Similarweb is an AI-powered digital data intelligence company. It provides real-time market intelligence, competitive insights, and consumer trend data to help businesses accelerate their growth through access to digital market information.
WordPress.com search page for finding public posts, blogs, and topics across WordPress sites.
Operatory Poiska Google searches for images, video, audio, or other media by keyword or visual input.
A Moz blog post by Dr. Peter J. Meyers presenting 67 Google search operator examples across five areas: content research, title research, plagiarism check, competitive research, and technical SEO/audits. It explains operators such as quotes for exact match, parentheses for grouping terms, and exclusion of specific terms.
Social search page for finding public results across social platforms and web sources.
A compiled list of Google Dork search queries with usage examples. It provides specialized Google search strings to locate specific web content, including .edu domain contact details, websites running vbulletin forum software, and other targeted information.
Google Advanced Search Operators is a guide that lists 44 Google advanced search operators, special commands that filter search results to make searches more precise, with categorization of operators by working status.
Endless Google is a userscript and Firefox extension that automatically loads more Google search results at the end of the document as the user scrolls, enabling endless result loading without manual pagination.
Mozilla web browser focused on open standards, privacy controls, extensions, and cross-device sync.
VHSearch is a search tool built for searching content hosted on the Neocities platform. Created by Coyote Reyne, it includes features such as a StartHere directory, About page, contact information, and an updates and news section for users.
IntelTechniques search hub with links and shortcuts for public web, people, image, and data searches.
Aware-Online provides a free collection of custom Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) scripts and links to third-party OSINT tools, alongside tutorials, to support effective internet and social media investigations. The provider does not actively monitor information entered into its scripts.
Trovu is a free, privacy-focused command-line style web search tool. It allows searching over 1000 websites via curated and personal shortcuts organized by namespaces, with support for multiple typed arguments. It is accessible via web browser, smartphone, or Raycast, and is the successor to the Serchilo project.
Telegram link for search engines updates, bots, resources, or community discussion.