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TryHackMe14 answered prompts

Google Dorking TryHackMe walkthrough with 14 answered prompts.

Prompts and answers

  • Name the key term of what a "Crawler" is used to do
    Index
  • What is the name of the technique that "Search Engines" use to retrieve this information about websites?
    Crawling
  • What is an example of the type of contents that could be gathered from a website?
    Keywords
  • Where would "robots.txt" be located on the domain "ablog.com"
    ablog.com/robots.txt
  • If a website was to have a sitemap, where would that be located?
    /sitemap.xml
  • How would we only allow "Bingbot" to index the website?
    User-agent: Bingbot
  • How would we prevent a "Crawler" from indexing the directory "/dont-index-me/"?
    Disallow: /dont-index-me/
  • What is the extension of a Unix/Linux system configuration file that we might want to hide from "Crawlers"?
    .conf
  • What is the typical file structure of a "Sitemap"?
    XML
  • What real life example can "Sitemaps" be compared to?
    Map
  • Name the keyword for the path taken for content on a website
    Route
  • What would be the format used to query the site bbc.co.uk about flood defences
    site: bbc.co.uk flood defences
  • What term would you use to search by file type?
    filetype:
  • What term can we use to look for login pages?
    intitle: login