[fjarlq]

Quotes are indeed still respected by Google: https://support.google.com/websearch/answer/2466433

For example, this search without quotes doesn't mention Dennis Ritchie's NYTimes obituary on the first page of results:

https://www.google.com/search?q=became+more+interested+in+co...

Add quotes and the obituary becomes the first result:

https://www.google.com/search?q=%22became+more+interested+in...

[DanBC]

That's not what people mean when they say "not respected by Google".

They're not saying quotes never work, they're saying sometimes you use quotes and google returns a page that doesn't include the quoted word.