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I agree, it is super irritating to no longer be able to do precise searches on google like I used to. Is there another search engine you would recommend which provides this functionality?

Same here. Tried reporting it a number of times in different ways but nothing ever happens. Have posted a few examples as response to moultanos answer further down in this thread.

Do you have some example queries to debug?

I have: - http://techinorg.blogspot.com/2013/03/what-is-going-on-with-...

edit: Here are just the queries:

"sublime text 2" "focus group"

cisco "anyclient" - this one gets silently rewritten to cisco anyconnect

shopify "deduplicate" - with verbatim activated -

I wish I had saved the results every time over the last few years that Google showed me a page it claimed had what I was looking for, when neither searching the visible text or even the source code of the page produced any such string. I am sure that it's happened to me hundreds of times by now, if not thousands. For a long time, it was surprising and ranged from annoying to infuriating. Now I just sigh and accept it as the cost of Googling.