Course Length: 16 Hours
Tuition: $575 per person
Includes: Twelve months of complimentary access to the Antisyphon Cyber Range, certificate of participation, six months access to class recordings.


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Course Description
Alternative & Advanced Search Engine Intelligence (AASEI) begins with explaining search engines and algorithms – how they work for Intelligence operations. From here, students are exposed to a variety of search engines (beyond Google, Yandex, and Bing). Various search engines are surveyed for use cases and regions used. From this point, students are introduced to concepts and techniques to alter or improve their search engine results and efficiency. The remainder of the class is used to refine and re-enforce students’ comprehension of advanced search operators, providing students with a whole new area of the internet to use for Intelligence collection and analysis.
In brief, this course covers the following via lectures, labs, and demonstrations:
- Algorithms behind the search engines
- Non-Google Search Engines
- Regional
- Specialized Focus
- Techniques for more effective searching abroad
- Considerations and use of each search engine
- Advanced operators for conducting searches for Intelligence operations
Trainer & Author

Joe Gray is an exemplary veteran of the U.S. Navy Submarine Force and a highly esteemed expert in social engineering and OSINT. He is the inaugural winner of the DerbyCon Social Engineering Capture the Flag (SECTF), and in recognition of his accomplishments, was awarded the highly prestigious DerbyCon Black Badge. Joe is the Founder and Principal Instructor at The OSINTion and is a member of the elite Password Inspection Agency.
Joe has proved his proficiency in Capture the Flag events on numerous occasions, having placed 2nd in the HackFest Quebec Missing Persons CTF and Winning the TraceLabs OSINT Search Party during DEFCON 28 (as a member of The Password Inspection Agency), DEFCON 29 (as a member of The Federal Bureau of OH-SHINT), and DEFCON 30 (as a member of The Eff Ess Bees). Independently, Joe placed 4th in the DerbyCon OSINT CTF and 3rd in the National Child Protection Task Force Missing Persons CTF.
Joe is also well-known as a thought leader in the field, having authored the OSINT tools DECEPTICON Bot and WikiLeaker, and written the book, Practical Social Engineering, published by NoStarch Press. His work has been featured in well-known publications such as Forbes and Dark Reading. He is also an active contributor to various platforms.
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