[monkpit]

Quotes haven’t worked for about 10 years now. For my job in 2012 I very often had to google obscure part numbers to find documentation.

Even if you added quotes to the part number (such as “foo123-x”, google would return results for “foo234-x” or “foo123-y” and bold them as if they had matched. The real part numbers could be 10-20 characters long, so it was more difficult to spot discrepancies.

I learned very quickly not to trust the results even when adding quotes. If I had assumed the quotes had worked, I would have grabbed bad documentation without even realizing it.

[Melatonic]

You have to both quote the term(s) and then check the box for "verbatim". Then it should generally work. Have you all tried doing both at once?

edit: It is a pain in the ass though

[nabakin]

What I mean is that quotes still improve looking up specific strings, but yeah, not as good as they once were and getting progressively worse.