Yes and no. Modern web development has moved toward more secure practices:
The reason this specific string is so popular in the hacking community is that it often points to inurl php id 1
Web Application Firewalls now block users who attempt to put SQL characters like ' or -- into a URL. Yes and no
However, older "legacy" websites, small business pages, and poorly maintained government portals often still use the old PHP patterns. For security researchers (and bad actors), this dork remains a quick way to find low-hanging fruit. Ethical and Legal Warning For security researchers (and bad actors), this dork
?id= is a GET parameter used to request a specific record from a database (like a product page or a news article). 1 is the value being passed to that parameter.
: This is a search operator that tells Google to restrict results to pages where the specified text appears anywhere in the URL.