Yup. Putting things in quotes is no longer "find this exact term" but a best match for most things.

And on top of that you can't find specific information on actual data if it anyway correlates to businesses that advertise. It's gotten painfully difficult to research markets that I'm casually interested in (e.g. tonight I wanted to compare a few cities by how many hotels they had - this is impossible on google and duck duck go with simple queries).

They really aren't doing a great job of cataloging data and making it useful to anyone but advertisers.

I noticed that the query "foo" AND "bar" does not give the same result as "foo" + "bar".

So what's going on, is "AND" just treated as another keyword now? Lame.