TABLE OF CONTENTS There's no shortage of documents on the Internet. Good guys and bad guys alike can use information found in documents to achieve their distinct purposes. In this chapter we take a look at ways you can use Google to not only locate these documents but to search within these documents to locate information. There are so many different types of documents that we can't hope to cover them all, but we'll look at the documents in distinct categories based on their function. Specifically, we'll take a look at a few categories such as configuration files, log files, and office documents. Once we've looked at distinct file types, we'll delve into the realm of database digging. We won't examine the details of the Structured Query Language (SQL) or database architecture and interaction; rather, we'll look at the many ways Google hackers can locate and abuse database systems armed with nothing more than a search engine.
One important thing to remember about document digging is that Google will only search the rendered, or visible, view of a document. For example, consider a Microsoft Word document. This type of document can contain metadata, as shown in Figure 10.1 These fields include such things as the subject, author, manager, company, and much more. Google will not search these fields. If you're interested in getting to the metadata within a file, you'll have to download the actual file and check the metadata yourself.
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