> Wrapping a phrase in quotation marks forces Google to find pages where those exact words appear in that exact order.

This hasn't been the case for at least five years surely?

It works some time. The problem is that you need it to actually search what you want, and it just ignores it every now and then.

Maybe it needs that verbatim option?

I found that Google ignores it for the most part.

I also think that behaviour kind of came from youtube. For videos it makes a tiny bit more sense to ignore what the person wanted. For google search it makes no sense, and this is one of many more reasons why I think Google must be disbanded.

15-20 years. Maybe longer.