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This document is confidential

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This really isn't that big of a deal. If you look through some of the results, you see things like blank forms (where "Confidential" refers to the information filled in by the applicant), boilerplate, attachments as part of public filings (where the document may have been confidential but came out in a trial) etc.

In one case, the "this document is confidential" is a phrase taken from the sentence "nothing in this document is confidential." I'm working on a "confidential" document right now, but it's intended for litigation and will likely show up in a records search in a year or two.

There may be something juicy in here, but you're gonna have to go through a whole bunch of the mundane to find it.

So much confidentiality, yet so little desire to actually read any of these documents. I hear Area 51 is cool, though.

Public is the new private - if you're hiding something, I'm not interested. If it's in plain view, I feel especially cool for seeing it.

Changing it to site:gov.uk doubles the number of results.

Replace confidential with one of:

PROTECT COMMERCIAL, PROTECT PERSONAL, RESTRICTED

You have to sort through a bit, but there's plenty there.

If you think this search gets plenty of results, try searching for "XYZ Confidential", where XYZ is a Fortune 500 corporation.

https://encrypted.google.com/search?hl=en&q=filetype%3Ar...

Nobody's perfect, I guess.

Most of these "confidential" documents are presentations made by google employees to other companies to sell adwords.

A peep into the documents reveal the huge investment Google does into Product Marketing Managers who do industry analysis, sell products predominantly adwords

http://static.googleusercontent.com/external_content/untrust...

http://google.inxshare.de/01_Automotive/Google_AutomotiveMar...

http://www.in.gov/tourism/pdfs/Compete-Google_Travel_Economy...

http://www.mednet-tech.com/pdf/MedNet%20Webinar_11%2018%2020...

Ha, you get even more interesting results if you change the domain to .mil.

What's the significance of "https://encrypted.google.com?

It's a feature they added not long ago: http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/05/search-more-securely-...

I haven't browsed it in about five years, but the Google Hack Database (http://www.hackersforcharity.org/ghdb/) had a lot of these kind of things.

What did surprise me was that when I changed it from gov to mil there were only 7 results. Expected more from the military. ;)

try:

EDIT: Actually most of this stuff is false positives, but I'm sure you can fine tune the search query.

EDIT 2: This is quite good, for UK (I'm a UK Citizen):

No.... :) I hear fake 25 yr old female analyst profiles on Facebook work well. :)

Please don't confuse the US military with the US government. In the military if you can't do the job you're assigned, you get reassigned. If it doesn't do what it's supposed to do it gets axed. In the government...

... the FBI will accidentally declassify military communique on the reproduction of Tesla's experiments: http://bit.ly/aT5AZ0

Well, that was a waste of time.

Holy hell... snooping for classified data aside, searching for documents on any historically significant topic on site:mil may now be my new hobby.

Just visit Wikileaks...

I think wikileaks host those that are missing in the .mil ...

Title of this item should be changed to "Eternal September has arrived."

Apple and Google turn up nothing, but Microsoft...

https://encrypted.google.com/search?hl=en&q=filetype%3Ar...