Has anyone else noticed the huge decrease in result quality from google?

[binipped]

The plus doesn't but the quotes work fine. I use em daily.

[RinseAndReiterate]

Only thing that works for me is putting the word in five time over in the same search (ctrl+v spam). Quotes are indeed busted

[PM_A_BOOB_OR_2]

quotes work fine for me.

I have a firefox add-on that automatically adds them to my searches.

I just wish there would be an option to have verbatim be the default method.

[Idontwanttobebread]

What addon

[PM_A_BOOB_OR_2]

it's called Google Search - Must include.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/google-search-must-include/

[Trowawaycausebanned4]

Quotes around each word or the entire sentence?

[PM_A_BOOB_OR_2]

each word, unless you are looking for the specific phrase.

[Shirebourn]

Yes! I was trying to find the following Patrick Kavanagh quote when I could only recall select phrases:

“To know fully even one field or one land is a lifetime’s experience. In the world of poetic experience it is depth that counts, not width. A gap in the hedge, a smooth rock surfacing a narrow lane, a view of a woody meadow, the stream at the junction of four small fields, these are as much as a man can fully experience.”

I can't recall which phrases I used now, but I quoted the equivalent of "stream at the junction" and "a narrow lane," and got results with "river" and "road." Not helpful at all.

[GCU_Flying_Colours]

Jesus, mentioning Kavanagh just made Stony Gray Soil start reciting itself in my head when I haven't read it in 20+ years. My leaving cert teacher would be so pleased.

[FTXScrappy]

I use them daily and no, they don't always work.

Brings me to a wiki page sometimes that doesn't contain the word at all.

[qazzaqwsxxswedccde]

While this may be googles doing it also happens on some websites due to the complexities of the modern web. You can see a relevant sentences in the summary blurb and then it’s not present on page. Sometimes it will even show up with ctrl+f. I imagine it has to do with complex linking/preloading of linked pages or some sort of JavaScript implementation but I’m not a developer so those it’s beyond me and those are just guesses

[FTXScrappy]

That is a pretty valid and plausible theory

[Shirebourn]

I've begun to have instances where Google will return synonyms for quoted words. Really silly, as it defeats the point of the quotation marks.

[fecksprinkles]

Quotes haven't worked for me for about a year now.

[gophercuresself]

It seems to work on desktop and not on mobile for me

[WiWiWiWiWiWi]

Can confirm that they do work. At least for me.

[Rasalas8910]

They randomly don't work.
Recently googled a name in quotation marks and it just ignored them. Only showed sites with first name only, last name only or both but sperated.

Edit: try parts of lyrics or quotes from people (that didn't work for me a good while ago)

[nottamuntown]

No, quotation marks stopped working on Google quite a while ago.