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    #2
    I_Mr_Euphony
    Registered Users Posts: 57 ✭✭I_Mr_Euphony


    I haven't used it much yet, I only really discovered it a day or so ago, but apart from searching for code to help you out it also has a much worse use.

    For example, wordpress login information is normally stored in a php file thats not readable from the outside world but if you do this......
    http://www.google.com/codesearch?as_q=username&as_filename=wp-config.php

    Hey presto your in...

    Not cool google....


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    Mutant_Fruit
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,943 ✭✭✭Mutant_Fruit


    I_Mr_Euphony wrote:
    For example, wordpress login information is normally stored in a php file thats not readable from the outside world but if you do this......
    Look carefully at what you actually found... they all look like installation packages. None of those are live sites.


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    Adam
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,866 ✭✭✭Adam


    Yup, thats exactly what they are.

    Anybody used this, is it any good?


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    #5
    seamus
    Registered Users Posts: 68,317 ✭✭✭✭seamus


    Mutant_Fruit wrote:
    Look carefully at what you actually found... they all look like installation packages. None of those are live sites.
    Some of them look like live sites where they were tested offline and the files uploaded as a tar/gzip.

    Not really Google's fault if these guys left their code readable.


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    Hobbes
    Registered Users Posts: 21,264 ✭✭✭✭Hobbes


    LOL.. search for "Internal use only" and add company name of choice. Legal departments are going to have kittens.


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    Adam
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,866 ✭✭✭Adam


    Am I missing something? Suggested company to add?


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    #8
    Hobbes
    Registered Users Posts: 21,264 ✭✭✭✭Hobbes


    Pick a company and you go looking for code that should never be in the index. Its a bit like the Google search for government documents. You can find the occasional not for public consumption documents there too.

    Of course you probably need to know the terminology of company in question.


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    #9
    pH
    Registered Users Posts: 4,188 ✭✭✭pH


    Indeed, try "not for public release" in regular Google, you get 88,000 results.


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    pH
    Registered Users Posts: 4,188 ✭✭✭pH


    Turns out that PHP is the most expletive filled language!

    http://tinyurl.com/jj9rl

    Now for theories - does writing PHP make you curse? or are PHP programmers just a coarser bunch - the sailors of the coding world?


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