For what it's worth, I assure you that putting a "query" "term" in "quotes" is identical to the retired +plus +sign +operator. I would be very curious, if you

For what it's worth, I assure you that putting a "query" "term" in "quotes" is identical to the retired +plus +sign +operator. I would be very curious, if you set up Verbatim search as your default search engine in your browser, how often you have to "fix" it, and if you ever find it easier to see what Google makes of your non-verbatim query. I'd especially be interested in how often the thing you're searching for doesn't really exist on the web, and so Google is replacing "no results" with "off-topic results."