I just tried this on one of my old favorite games, "Stars!". I used to be able to search for that. But google ditches the !. Even quoted. Even verbatim.
"Stars! game" (with or without quotes) helps a little. The right wikipedia page is linked. Mostly it's drowned out in a sea of stuff about the Dallas Stars, NBA all stars, etc.
"Stars! game windows" is getting closer and has more results, but it's still cluttered up with results for various windows games, companies (StarDock), etc. that have nothing to do with what I want.
The real trick here is to search for Stars AutoHost, since that was one of the hub websites of the game. Doesn't need to be verbatim, quoted, anything. Suddenly, the actual page titles actually have "Stars!" - complete with exclamation mark - in them.
This isn't an edge case for me. C++, C#, ".NET", tons of tech thinks punctuation is cool and (ab)uses it. To say nothing of all the various operators these languages have. Bleh.
"Stars! game" (with or without quotes) helps a little. The right wikipedia page is linked. Mostly it's drowned out in a sea of stuff about the Dallas Stars, NBA all stars, etc.
"Stars! game windows" is getting closer and has more results, but it's still cluttered up with results for various windows games, companies (StarDock), etc. that have nothing to do with what I want.
The real trick here is to search for Stars AutoHost, since that was one of the hub websites of the game. Doesn't need to be verbatim, quoted, anything. Suddenly, the actual page titles actually have "Stars!" - complete with exclamation mark - in them.
This isn't an edge case for me. C++, C#, ".NET", tons of tech thinks punctuation is cool and (ab)uses it. To say nothing of all the various operators these languages have. Bleh.