Really? Naively, I was still continuing to put my "queries in quotes" and using + and - to refine my search.
When did it stopped being supported?
When did it stopped being supported?
A quick test reveals maybe the change is that you can't do an exact "ascii" search, ie. google searches for an exact sequence of words, but the casing may be different , there-may-be-dashes and so on.
mars +landings +failures
mars “landings” “failures”
Quotes still work, and also have an effect like +