If you go into the advanced search options you can tell Google to explicitly search on what you type. I use it so often for the reasons you point out (because

If you go into the advanced search options you can tell Google to explicitly search on what you type. I use it so often for the reasons you point out (because nowadays in their infinite wisdom they will helpfully ignore quotes too) it occurs to me I should either find an extension or script to just have it enabled by default.