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Google no longer (hasn't in a while) respected quotes. It's very hard to get Google to actually say there aren't any results even when in fact there are no matching results.

They respect it when they submit it then, as every time I've used that function to see them update the query with quotes it comes back with different results. I've never cared to look at the search query in the URL, so maybe they also add and additional parameter that tells the back end specifically to obey the quotes on this resubmitting???? So at some point, the quotes aren't ignored

that's not my experience.

https://www.google.com/search?q=%22kgirbudidndijrjjr%22 gives me "Your search - "kgirbudidndijrjjr" - did not match any documents.", at least it will until they index this comment and find kgirbudidndijrjjr

Quotes are more like guidelines these days.

on the advanced search, there's still the option to specify that it 'must contain' something, but I'm not sure if it's just a suggestion like quotes or not.

I "love" how we've reached a point where we so distrust this company specifically but dark pattern UIs in general where we almost anticipate placebo like buttons.