Google Dorking — Advanced Search File Finder
A visual builder for advanced search operators — the technique often called Google dorking. Tick the file types you want, add a site, a title word, a date bound, and watch the query assemble live: annual report 2025 (filetype:pdf OR filetype:docx) site:example.com -template. Then it opens in your browser. Works with Google, DuckDuckGo and Bing, and grays out operators an engine can't honour so your search never silently misfires. No scraping, no API key, no account.
What it's for
Plain keywords drown you in noise. Search operators cut straight to the file: filetype:pdf finds the PDF, site: pins it to one domain, intitle: matches the title, before:/after: bound the date. This screen turns that syntax into a form — you fill in fields, it writes the operators. It's a natural front door to the rest of the app: find the PDFs, DOCX, EPUB, SRT, FLAC or STEP/IGES files you need, then convert them with the tools MiniMax already ships. Drop a file on the window and it pre-fills that extension — “find more like this.”
Operators it builds
| Operator | What it does | DuckDuckGo | Bing | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
filetype: | match a file extension (OR-group several) | yes | yes | yes |
site: / -site: | restrict to, or exclude, a domain | yes | yes | yes |
intitle: | words in the page title | yes | yes | yes |
inurl: | words in the URL | yes | yes | no |
intext: | words in the body text | yes | no | no |
"exact phrase", -word, OR | literal match, exclusion, alternation | yes | yes | yes |
before: / after: | date bounds (also the Time filter) | yes | no | no |
contains: | pages that link to a file type — where download links live | no | no | yes |
| Language / Safe search | content language and family filter (URL parameters) | yes | safe only | safe only |
Deliberately left out after a 2026 check: AROUND() and num= (unreliable), and operators an engine quietly dropped — a dead operator that returns junk looks like a bug, so we don't emit one.
How to use it
- Open Tools → Network → Web File Search.
- Type keywords, then tick the file types (or type custom extensions like
iges, ifc). Presets like “Documents to convert” or “CAD / 3D models” fill them in one click. - Narrow it down: site, in-title / in-URL / in-text words, exclude words, language, date, safe search.
- Read the live query preview — that's the operator syntax, assembling as you type (the fastest way to learn it). Switch engine and unsupported rows gray out.
- Click Search in browser, or Copy query / Copy URL to paste elsewhere.
Privacy & the security angle
Everything happens locally: the tool assembles a query string and asks your operating system to open the search URL in your default browser. There is no SERP scraping, no API key, no CAPTCHA fight, and nothing about your search reaches our servers — identical to typing the operators yourself.
“Google dorking” is also a security-research term. This tool stays operator-generic and ships no exposed-target presets. If that's your field, the operator syntax is the same one documented in the public Google Hacking Database on Exploit-DB.
Questions and answers
What is Google dorking?
Using advanced search operators — filetype:, site:, intitle:, intext:, before:/after: and similar — to narrow a web search far more precisely than plain keywords. This tool builds those operator strings for you.
Does the tool scrape search results?
No. It only assembles the query and opens the search-engine URL in your default browser. No scraping, no API key, nothing sent to our servers.
Why do some operators gray out when I switch engines?
Engines differ — DuckDuckGo has no date or intext: operator; Bing dropped inurl: long ago. Emitting an operator the engine ignores would return misleading results, so the tool disables those rows and tells you which engine can't honour them.
Can I find pages that link to files, not just the files?
Yes, on Bing — tick “Find pages linking to these files” and it switches filetype: to contains:, which surfaces the pages where download links actually live.
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