[camhutch]

There is a "verbatim" mode of search that may help in these cases, which looks like it turns off a bunch of search heuristics. When you get your result, there's a "Search tools" button that reveals a dropdown that defaults to "All results". In that dropdown is a "Verbatim" option. Try that.

You can add the query parameter "tbs=li:1" to get verbatim results right away.

[username223]

> "verbatim" mode... which looks like it turns off a bunch of search heuristics.

Ugh. This sounds like one of those families of PHP escaping functions: `escape_string()`, `really_escape_string()`, `escape_string_all_the_way()`, `no_really_i_mean_it_this_time_escape_string()`, etc. Google seems to have improved somewhat at fighting SEO spam, but their efforts to "helpfully" change queries have consistently made their service worse.

[petra]

Verbatim is an improvement , but even with verbatim, it still sometimes ignores your wishes.

[xixi77]

omg, live and learn. Is there a list of these somewhere?!