Web Detective

Understand why ”the invisible web” is
invisible

Understand
what we will find via search engines – and what we have to find in other ways

 

Learn to use search engines

• How do they work
• Differences
• Which should be used
  for which purpose

 

Learn to use search engines efficiently

Understand
operators – and learn them by heart. Use operators in combinations.

Among
the useful operators are (in Google):

site:

inurl:

intitle:

link:

filetype:

 

Know the difference between present and
past

Understand
the possibilities for cached search results in for example Google, Yahoo,
Daypop and Gigablast

Learn
to use www.archive.org – not only to find
the frontpage of sites but also as a precision tool for finding certain
subpages of sites

 

Understand how to find owners and contact
addresses

Learn
how to do whois searches for owners of domains, ip numbers and connections

 

Read code

Don’t
be afraid to open and study the source code of webpages. Learn how to read
source code (just the basics).

 

Hack

Understand
the web adress (the URL)

Learn
how to ”hack” the URL

 

Metadata

Understand
what Metadata is. Know where to search for metadata and wha