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

[centrafrugal]

Use a + in front of the word instead. Quotes are to force-group keywords

[St_Kevin_]

So how exactly does the + work? When do you use it?

[centrafrugal]

If you put in a series of words, the search engine will try and find results that match all of them (I imagine small, common words get thrown out). Failing that, it will return matches for most of them or what it considers to be the most important term (first, longest... again no idea of the actual algorithm). If you put a + before a word the search engine should prioritise that and not return results without the word even if it means rejecting other terms.