Quotes haven’t worked for about 10 years now. For my job in 2012 I very often had to google obscure part numbers to find documentation.

Even if you added quotes to the part number (such as “foo123-x”, google would return results for “foo234-x” or “foo123-y” and bold them as if they had matched. The real part numbers could be 10-20 characters long, so it was more difficult to spot discrepancies.

I learned very quickly not to trust the results even when adding quotes. If I had assumed the quotes had worked, I would have grabbed bad documentation without even realizing it.

You have to both quote the term(s) and then check the box for "verbatim". Then it should generally work. Have you all tried doing both at once?

edit: It is a pain in the ass though

What I mean is that quotes still improve looking up specific strings, but yeah, not as good as they once were and getting progressively worse.