Search Recipes
Practical, legitimate Google dorking recipes for everyday searches. Each recipe explains the operators, gives you variations, and lets you build and run the query right on the page — no sign-up needed.
Job hunting
Find remote jobs on a company's career page
Skip the job boards and search a specific company's own website for remote-friendly roles. This surfaces openings the company posted directly, before they get buried in aggregator listings.
site:{company} (careers OR jobs) (remote OR "work from home")Jobs posted this week on Greenhouse & Lever boards
Greenhouse and Lever host career pages for thousands of companies. This query targets those boards directly. After you run it, use Google's Tools > Any time > Past week to narrow to recent postings.
(site:greenhouse.io OR site:lever.co) {role}Find internship listings
Surface internship openings across university, company, and job-board sites in a single query. Great for students hunting for summer or semester roles.
(internship OR intern) {field}Research salary ranges for a role
Find salary surveys, compensation reports, and pay benchmarks for a specific role. Targeting PDFs pulls up published reports rather than ad-heavy calculator pages.
{role} (salary OR compensation) filetype:pdfResearch & study
Find free PDF reports and white papers
Industry reports and white papers are usually published as PDFs. Targeting that file type skips blog posts and landing pages and takes you straight to the source document.
{topic} (report OR "white paper") filetype:pdfFind academic papers on .edu sites
Universities host lecture notes, theses, and preprints on their .edu domains. Restrict your search to them to get academic sources instead of SEO content.
site:edu {topic}Find government statistics on .gov sites
Official statistics live on .gov domains. Restricting to them bypasses news summaries and gets you the primary source with the full dataset.
site:gov {topic} statisticsFind slides and presentations
Conference talks and course slides are often PDF or PowerPoint files. Target those file types to pull presentations straight up without the surrounding blog posts.
{topic} (filetype:pdf OR filetype:ppt) (slides OR presentation)Find open course materials and textbooks
Universities publish free syllabi, lecture notes, and open textbooks you can self-study from. Search .edu domains for these teaching materials directly.
site:edu {topic} (syllabus OR "lecture notes" OR textbook)Shopping & deals
Find manuals for discontinued products
Official support pages vanish when products are discontinued, but the PDF manuals are often still indexed elsewhere. Target PDFs to dig them back up.
{product} (manual OR instructions) filetype:pdfFind coupon and promo pages
Look for current promo code pages on a retailer's own site or on deal aggregators. A quick way to check for active discounts before you check out.
{store} (coupon OR "promo code" OR discount)Compare prices at a specific store
Restrict a product search to one store's domain to check what they stock and at what price, without comparison-site noise.
site:{store} {product}Find product spec sheets
Manufacturers publish spec sheets as PDFs. Target them to compare hardware specs side by side before buying.
{product} (specifications OR "spec sheet" OR datasheet) filetype:pdfContent & creators
Find guest-post opportunities
Blogs that accept guest posts usually say so on a 'write for us' or 'guest post' page. Find those pages directly instead of hunting through menus.
{topic} ("write for us" OR "guest post" OR "contribute to")Find podcast guest call-outs
Podcasters post 'looking for guests' pages you can apply to. Surface them with a targeted phrase search in your area of expertise.
"looking for guests" podcast {topic}Find Reddit discussions about a topic
Restrict results to Reddit to read real conversations, reviews, and opinions about a subject from actual users.
site:reddit.com {topic}Business & sales
Find a company's press page
Press releases and media kits live on predictable URL paths. Find a company's press page directly for announcements, contacts, and brand assets.
site:{company} (press OR media OR newsroom)Find industry directories
Member directories and association listings group companies in a niche. Find them to build prospect lists or research a market.
{industry} (directory OR members OR "member list")Find conference speaker lists
Conference sites post their speaker lineups — useful for prospecting speakers, finding events, or researching a field's thought leaders.
{event} (speakers OR "speaker list" OR agenda)Everyday
Find recipes without ads
Recipe blogs are buried under ads and long life stories. Exclude the biggest ad-heavy sites to get cleaner recipe pages, or target PDFs for plain printable recipes.
{dish} recipe -site:pinterest.* -site:allrecipes.comFind local events
Event listings and calendars show up on community and venue sites. Narrow to your city and month to find what's on near you.
{city} (events OR calendar) {month}Search for an exact quote
Wrap a phrase in quotes to match it word-for-word. Perfect for finding the source of a quote, a song lyric, or a specific line from a document.
"{phrase}"Exclude sites from your results
Use the minus operator to remove noisy domains and get to the sources you actually want. One of the simplest, most useful dorking tricks.
{topic} -site:pinterest.* -site:facebook.comFind a specific file type on a topic
Target one file type to jump straight to documents, spreadsheets, or slides about a subject instead of web pages.
{topic} filetype:{ext}Find newsletters about a topic
Newsletter landing pages describe what they cover. Search for them to find new subscriptions worth following in your area of interest.
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