I don&#x27;t think that Google accepts +term any longer.  They switched several years ago to requiring &quot;term&quot; with quotes.  Presumably this was because they wanted to make searches for Google+ names easier.  For a while I think they gave a warning, but it seems like they&#x27;ve stopped doing that now.<p>Edit:  Wait, you work for Google, right? Am I the one that&#x27;s lost?  Did they switch back to supporting +term?