The next search engine that I would like to show you is called Yandex.
Yandex is a Russian search engine that has some exclusive search operators that Google and Bing don't
have.
And I would like to cover two such operators that will help you to find more information and to narrow
down your search.
And as we said before, using different search engines might help you to find additional information
that you weren't able to find on Google or Bing.
In addition to that, one of the best and coolest features that Yandex has is its ability to recognize
faces from pictures, which is something that I would like to cover in the image Osint section.
So to use Yandex, all you have to do is to go to Yandex Dotcom.
And the first thing that I would like to search for is Rishi Kabra.
And I'm going to put this into two quotation marks.
And most of the search operators that we learned so far.
Work with Yandex so you can use the site operator, you can use the quotation marks, the minus, etc..
So here we can find some information about Rishi Kabra.
Most of these information are information that we have gathered and we have in our notes.
And one very important thing that I would like to show you is that sometimes Yandex has a saved copy
or a cached copy of a certain page.
So for example, when you go to this URL, you're going to see that there are three dots.
You want to click on these and you will see the option saved copy.
And you can open it.
And then a saved copy will be opened.
And we can see that this copy is from 11th December 2023.
So what I normally do is that when I search on Google and find a certain page that is not available
anymore and Google doesn't have a saved copy of this page, then I go to Bing and Yandex and search
for the exact same URL or the title, and sometimes I'll be able to find a saved copy on Yandex or Bing.
Another thing that you will notice about Yandex is that you cannot see the number of search results.
One search result that captured my attention is this one because we can see the username Rishi Kapoor.
132 which is something that we have captured before, and we know that he uses this username and underscore
rk.
132 is also something that he used on Twitter.
And here are some information about him.
So we know that this is his account.
I'm going to open the URL so we can see Rishi Kabra profile picture that we have seen previously.
And we can see that his works at client and his product manager, his Twitter username again and his
location.
We can scroll down and find some information about him like he likes video games, music and football.
And we can also see his LinkedIn profile, which is also something that we have gathered before.
So since we don't have this account in our notes, I'm going to copy the URL and put it in here.
Another thing that I would like to show you that is unique about Yandex is that when you click on this
setting icon, you can select the time period and you can see that you can select the last day, last
two weeks or last month.
But what if you want to find a certain information that were indexed in a certain day, or in a certain
week, or in a certain year?
So to do this, we are going to use the date search operator.
And this search operator will allow you to find search results in a specific date.
And using it is very simple.
You just have to say date and then the year or date, and then the year and the month or date, the
year and then the month and then the day.
And if you want to specify a specific range, then you can say from 2023 to 2022 or for example, you
can say date and then greater than or less than symbol, and then the year and the month and the day
if you want to.
So to use the date search operator, I'm going to add the word date.
And then I'm going to find all the search results that were indexed or found in the year 2020.
Then I'm going to hit enter.
And here are all the search results from the year 2020.
I can say 2020 zero one for example.
And as you can see we have less search results.
Or I can say all the search results that were indexed between the year 2022 and 2023.
Then I'm going to hit enter.
And as you can see, we were able to filter the search results.
And we don't need to specify the time period because we are so limited when we use this function.
If you are searching for a company and you want to find information about a certain website, then you
can use this exclusive search operator that only works with Yandex, which is called our host.
And our host will allow you to find a website's subdomains.
Using it is a little bit tricky because you want to specify the search operator first, and then the
top level domain for example.com, dotnet.org, etc., and then the second level domain, and then dot
and then star, which is an asterisk or a wildcard.
So to show you what I mean, if I want to find the subdomains that were indexed by Yandex for the website
cyberstalk, all I have to do is just to say our host.
And then I'm going to say org, which is the top level domain, and then I'm going to say cyber sudo
and then dot and then an asterisk.
So it's the top level domain first, and then the second level domain, and then an asterisk.
And then I'm going to hit enter.
And as you can see we were able to find the sub domain of cyber pseudo which is Academy cyberstalk which
is an old domain that I have used two years ago.
And it is still indexed in Yandex.
So if I open this URL you can see that it is not available anymore.
So in this lecture you have learned how you can use Yandex search engine in addition to exclusive search
operators.
The first one was date that will specify a specific date to find a certain search result, and the second
one is our host to find the subdomains of a certain company.
We have also learned how you can find a saved copy of a certain page.
So if the page was removed or was not available on Google and Bing, then you can use Yandex to see
if there is a cached or saved copy, and then see the information that was removed from the internet.