Next, I would like to show you how you can utilize search engine operators to discover indexed information
on Instagram profiles.
So we can use Google, Bing, and Yandex to see if there are any indexed information about these profiles.
Now we have two Instagram accounts.
One is available and the other one is offline.
So I'm going to copy the one that is not working and search for it on Google.
And we can find only one search result that is in his Ask.fm account.
He mentioned that this is his Instagram account, his old Instagram account, and when we try to open
it, we will see that it is not available anymore.
So if I scroll down, I'm not going to find anything.
I can open his Ask.fm account and as you can see, I can look at the description and we can see that
he mentioned that his Snapchat and Instagram account username is Rishi Kapoor.
132 To, which is all the information.
He either changed his username or he deleted his old account.
Now let's go to Bing.
I'm going to paste the exact same URL and we can see that it didn't find anything.
It only found some information about his other accounts.
Now let's go to Yandex and search for the URL and then hit enter.
And we can see that we were able to find the Instagram account in the search results.
It's actually indexed, but there is no saved copy because normally search engines doesn't have a copy
of accounts, they only have copy of pages, but we cannot see any other information.
So let me go to other pages and it will show me similar accounts with the same name, but it will not
show me anything else.
Now let's copy the second URL and then search for it on Google and we can see some posts that were indexed,
which are very recent.
So I'm going to open the first one.
And we can see that Rishi Khabra 16 hours ago, which is something new.
And I didn't see before that he commented on this post and to see exactly when he commented, I can
just say right click and then inspect.
Click on this arrow just like we have done before, and then select the time.
And now we will get the time in an ISO format.
And then we'll go to this website, search for it.
And now we can see when he exactly posted or commented on this post.
Now by looking at his comment that we found earlier, we can know that he is active on his Instagram
account because this post were made 16 hours ago and he immediately made a comment.
So he is active on this Instagram account.
Now let's come back to our search result and we can see here that somebody has mentioned him or he made
a comment to this video.
So let me open it.
And then I'm going to scroll down and we can see that he made a comment four days ago.
And he's saying last one is my favorite as well.
So I think that he's following his page because otherwise he wouldn't make a comment.
Now let's go to Bing and search for his profile.
And we can see that his profile is indexed by Bing.
And we can see also that Bing didn't filter the search results.
We can scroll down, but these are unlimited search results.
So what we can do instead is to say site instagram.com because we want to search in Instagram.
And then within two quotation marks we can say ad and then his username.
And then I'm going to hit enter and we can see that there is nothing.
I can also remove the ad and then hit enter.
And we didn't get anything.
Now let's go to Yandex and use the exact same search operator that we have used before, and we can
see that there is nothing going to say at we have nothing.
Let me replace site with domain.
We also have nothing.
Nothing.
So I'm going to continue my Osint operation, copy the URL and then put it in here.
And we didn't get anything.
Now let's try the same search operator on Google because we haven't tried it yet.
So I'm going to say site instagram.com and then rishiraj kabra.
And now we can also see that we only have two post.
So we have filtered many search results because when we previously added the profile URL, it showed
us two comments and all of the other URL are people with the same name Rishi Kabra, but with another
username.
So using the search operator is way better because it will filter out the search results.
So I can say add.
We might find something else, but we didn't.