Customising which apps appear in search

I use Google calendar, and want to activate my already created (and pinned to start) shortcut by pressing the windows key, and typing "cal", then pressing enter just like I did in win 7, and win 8 before the 8.1 update.
Now, post update, "cal" finds loads of unwanted stuff, but not my Google calendar shortcut. I have to keep typing "calen" before it appears.
Is there some way to customise which apps appear when searching? Ideally I would like it to appear, and be able to move it to the top of the list so it's the default option...
Yes, I know I could create icons and keyboard shortcuts, but I would like this to be possible for all my applications, and for me it's a lot faster to press 3 keys than to move to the mouse.

I'm made to wonder...  Why would I want to SEARCH for something FROM a particular place?  If I knew where it was and wanted to organize it by categories and look it up that way... 
I'd use a start menu.  As it turns out, I do that.
When I want to SEARCH for something, it's because I don't want to take my mind off what I'm doing and concentrate on finding a tool.
Even though Microsoft doesn't want to face fact, there's a gulf between "thinking stuff up" that
actually works better than things did before and "coming up with random stuff" that's just
different.  Nowadays Microsoft seems to think the latter is sufficient.  The fashion industry is based on "new and different is better".  A more useless and wasteful entity than the fashion industry there has never been.
-Noel
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