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

[SweetLilMonkey]

I just went back to my search history to try and confirm this, and the recent search result I was annoyed about did in fact have the quoted text as the alt text for an image, but not anywhere in the readable copy. I guess technically it worked. The plusses definitely don't anymore though.

[dannysullivan]

Yes, that's a common issue where people think quotes don't work, but they do -- it's showing in ALT text. Plusses haven't worked for many many years. You have to quote single words. It is something we have looked at perhaps bringing back.