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How to Search the Internet for '@'

I'm trying to figure out the context of an @enclosed@ variable in a .properties file, whether it refers to a variable in Java, UNIX, or something else. But try as I might I can't figure out how to search the internet for '@'. Google strips it from searches, even though its search suggestions will include it (and are currently more useful than its search results). Yahoo and Bing ignore it. Even stackoverflow's search ignores it. As far as I can tell, none of the search engines will let me escape it, either, so I can't search for \@ or "@" or anything like that.

So how or where can I search the internet for symbols?

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