A penetration tester is performing the footprinting process and is reviewing publicly available information about an organization by using the Google search engine. Which of the following advanced operators would allow the pen tester to restrict the search to the organization's web domain?

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C. [site:] The `site:` operator in Google Search is used to restrict results exclusively to a specified domain or subdomain, which is precisely what is needed to review publicly available information about an organization within its own web domain.

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A. [allinurl:] The `allinurl:` operator restricts results to pages where all specified search terms appear within the URL, not to a specific domain.

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B. [location:] The `location:` operator restricts search results to a particular geographic location, not a web domain.

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D. [link:] The `link:` operator (now largely deprecated in functionality) was used to find pages that link to a specific URL, not to search within a particular site.

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