Let's talk about Google Docs.
Google docs are search operators that will allow you to narrow down your search results, and can also
be used to find some sensitive information that are not easily accessible through a regular search.
Now, Google Docs are basically used by hackers, journalists, and anyone who needs to find any specific
information.
I would like to show you a real life example on how we can use Google Docs to find people information.
So we will be looking for a person called Rishi Kabra and this person works at Contact Out.
So what we are going to do throughout this section and the next sections is to gather as much information
as possible.
So the first Google doc or search operator that I would like to show you is the double quotes.
Now I want you to keep in mind that this search operator doesn't only work on Google, but it also works
on Bing and Yandex, so the double quotes will only display result that exactly match your search query.
For example, right here we have searched for the name Satyaraj and we have got 121,000 search results.
But when we use the double quotes, we were only able to get 3550 search results, which is way less
than before.
So let me show you a real life example.
I'm going to be searching for Rishi Kabra and see what information we can get.
So you can see that we have got 479,000 search results, and we cannot go through all of these search
results because this is going to take a lot of time.
So what we can do is put this name within two quotes like this and hit enter.
And now we have got 1840 search results.
Since we know that he works at Contact Out, we can add a space and say contact out within two quotation
marks.
And now we only got 132 search results.
There is an alternative option that you can use to narrow down your search results without using double
quotes, which is verbatim search.
So you can enable verbatim search by clicking on all results and then verbatim.
But I like to use the double quotes, because the double quotes will show you how many search results
were found.
So I'm going to hit enter right here.
And you can see that we have 132 search results, which is not visible if we used verbatim search.
Now if we looked at the search results again, we can see that we have a person called Rishi Kabra and
he is a product manager at Contact Out and he is from India, Kolkata.
So let me open this profile to see His profile picture and we can see that this is how he looks like,
and this is the person that we are looking for.
So we can see that he is a product manager at Contact Out.
We can see his profile picture and he is from India, Kolkata.
We can also scroll down to see more information about him and his experience etc..
Now we'll be talking about this in the social media Osint, in which we will utilize this information
to get more information about this person.
Before we continue, I would like to show you how you can take notes because notes are very important.
So the first option that I would like to show you is called notion, which is a cloud service that will
allow you to serve your notes on the cloud.
And if you would like to save your notes locally, you can use Keep note, which is also a good option.
Another important thing is taking screenshots and I like to use either Greenshot or Lightshot, but
I like Greenshot more because it has more features.
But for now, I'm going to copy the URL of his LinkedIn profile and put it in my notes.
Now let's come back to the search results.
We can see that he has an X account and we can read the description.
A product manager, developer, gamer, etc. and he has a different username.
So I'm going to copy the URL.
And then I'm going to go to a website called URL clean which will clean all the URL that are copied
from Google.
So if I pasted the URL you can see that it is a Google URL and we need to clean it using this website.
And now we can copy this URL and put it in our notes.
Now if we scroll down a little bit we can see here that some results may have been removed under data
protection law in Europe.
So if you are living in Europe, then some search results will be hidden and not displayed, and we
will see how we can bypass this in a future lecture.
Another thing that I would like to show you is if you are searching for a person and you know how this
person looks like, or you saw their profile picture on their account, for example, as we have seen
here, what we can do is search for faces in Google.
So you want to go to images and then you want to go to tools and then type and then select clipart.
And once you select this you are going to replace the word clipart in the URL to the word face.
So here we have clipart and we are going to replace it with the word face.
And as you can see now Google only searches for faces, and the first three search results are the people
that we are looking for.
And we can see that he has an account right here and he is using same or similar picture that he used
on LinkedIn.
And he also has a GitHub account.
So I'm going to open it and also save it in my notepad.
Now another thing that I would like to show you, which is if you know where this person lives, then
you can add the person name in double quotes, as we have done here, and then put the name of the city
where he is living.
For example, since we know that he is living in Kolkata, we are going to say Kolkata and then hit
enter and then we will get some search results.
And now we can see that we have an Ask.fm account and I'm going to copy the URL and also save it in
my notes.
Now if we scroll down a little bit you might see something.
For example, we can see that here we have a website that seems to be selling stuff, and we can see
the name Kolkata and Rishi Kabra.
And since we know that Rishi Kabra lives in Kolkata, we might assume that he was trying to sell a sofa
on this website.
So let's open the URL.
And as you can see, we cannot see the search result.
We cannot see the sofa that he was trying to sell.
So I assume that this sofa has been sold before and this offer is not available on this website anymore.
So what we can do in this case is look, if there is a cached version of this page, let's copy the
URL as we have done before, and then go to URL clean and put the URL right here and say clean it.
And now we have the URL.
So we're going to ask Google to see if there is a cached version of this page.
Please keep in mind that not all the pages on Google are cached, and cached means that there is an
old copy that Google has in its database.
So I'm going to open my notepad and put the URL, and at the beginning I'm going to type the word cache
and then a colon.
So it's going to be cache colon.
And then the URL.
I'm going to copy it and paste it in a new tab.
And as you can see we can see an old version of this page.
And we can also see how the server looks like.
And we might get an ID of the apartment where he's living.
We can also see that this is in West Bengal, in Kolkata, in this place.