The + operator has been replaced.
So now you need to "quote" "every" "word" "you" "are" "searching" "for" - how crazy is this?<p>What is even worse than this - and this is pretty bad already - is that terms are no longer included by default.<p>Google will leave out terms you are searching for, if it so chooses, unless you purposely put the plus (or now quotes).<p>The engineers are not in control, it's pretty darn obvious.<p><i>added: Doesn't the use of quotes prevent stemming? Didn't plus allow stemming?</i>