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by clarkey252 3246 days ago
Can someone explain why the inurl:server is used? Wouldn't this also work without that (and reveal more results where the keyfile has been renamed)
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I used inurl:server to restrict the results to mainly just server.key files so revealing the private keys of HTTPS websites.

Of course you can remove it. Just means more results to wade through.

More results does not necessarily mean better results. They probably got more specific to remove references to documentation and such.

Another interesting thing about google is that this search may return results that are not found without the inurl:server

At a guess, this is to filter out SSH keys, which have an identical private key format, and we well know already how many of those get committed to GitHub. I think this is to highlight where the server's HTTPS key is visible.
I'm curious also as i'm getting 5x the amount of results excluding the inurl name filter