Shodan

Shodan is not your average search engine. It's often referred to as the search engine for hackers. On its website, Shodan is referred to as the world's first search engine for interconnected devices. Shodan is accessible via https://www.shodan.io as shown in Figure 3:

What is so unique about Shodan? Search engines such as Google and Bing index websites, but Shodan indexes everything, such as webcams, databases servers, medical devices, routers, and so on. Anything that is connected to the internet is indexed by Shodan.

As defined by the founder of Shodan, John Matherly, in his book, Complete Guide to Shodan, the algorithm of Shodan is simple.

This algorithm does not merely crawl websites—it finds everything and indexes it. Let's take a look at some of the queries that can be run with Shodan.