I buy CDs. I rip them so I can get a DRM free copy on my hard drive. I store the CD on a shelf as a backup. I don't give away or sell copies to anyone. I only use one copy at a time so I'm not violating any reasonable interpretation of fair use. I don't have to pay a subscription fee to anyone to listen to the music I have purchased. I don't have to rely on any cloud service to maintain a copy. I don't have to worry about having access to the music I have purchased (which is an issue when I'm in my Jeep in the mountains and I have spotty cell phone coverage).

The artists and producers have made a reasonable profit in supplying the music to me. I am in control of how I access the music I paid for with no reliance on any 3rd party. Everybody wins.

Easy peasy. https://support.google.com/web...

I'm not seeing how that's a failing of the search for an exact phrase. If that exact phrase is not used anywhere, the exact phrase match won't find it. And when you enclose your phrase in double quotes, Google will tell you when an exact match is not found right there up at the top of the result page. That probably means you need to change your exact phrase to something else that might be out there. In the case of LG G3 retailers, you should probably look for cell phone retailers and peruse their websites. It's unlikely someone has compiled a comprehensive list of who sells a particular phone.

It may be frustrating but sometimes the thing you're looking for just isn't out there.

That's a legitimate complaint. It's funny in an ironic way.

The solution, then, is to understand how Google treats punctuation within even a quoted string and modify your search accordingly.

I'm not sure that's true. I mean, I ran this search

and the first thing it told me was that there was no match at all for that exact phrase. A very useful response to searching an exact phrase. It then went on to try to give me something useful but only after being very informative by telling me it could not find what I was looking for.

Perhaps what you're looking for is not out there and Google is trying as hard as they can to find anything that is remotely relevant.

What does that have to do with the OP's desire to search for specific error messages?

That's been a single character wildcard in regular expressions since the 1970's.

Probably because the period is a wildcard character. For the OP, he's looking for a specific string and the advanced search "Find pages with... this exact phrase" option (which, they tell you, is the same as enclosing the string in quotes in the regular search field) is what he is looking for. The fact that you can contrive an example that doesn't do what you want is largely irrelevant.

Sure, in an unquoted string. But enclosing the whole thing in quotation marks does help.

If all else fails, you can do an advanced search where you can enter an exact phrase to look for.

Try enclosing your error output in quotation marks. That tells Google that you're looking for that phrase, not just that combination of words.

Yeah, it's sad that 95% of the ads out there had to ruin it for the rest of them. ;)

There's only two reasons California would do this. 1) They are after more tax revenue. 2) Some bureaucrat wants to throw his weight around.

Good luck fighting their respective lobbies. But yeah, simply eliminating subsidies would be a good first step.

Yes. I blame all simple sugar (HFCS and cane/beet sugar), specifically the grossly increased consumption in the last few generations. Was that not clear?