Google's stupid decision to start replacing your search terms with ones that produced more hits for their advertisers, and to abolish the + operator and start ignoring quoted terms to stop you evading it, can be evaded by using 'verbatim' mode (aka 'actually search for what I fucking told you in the first place' mode).
The pertinent bit of the URL is &tbs=li:1
eg if you're looking specifically for people who've mixed up Pavel Chekov and Chekhov the playwright
http://www.google.com/search?q=chekov+playwright&tbs=li:1
Even Instant Search was less annoying than this. And at least Instant is client-side and can be easily evaded with Greasemonkey. Google have made the mistake here of ignoring the number one principle of computing, which is that computers should do exactly what they're told, even if it's to start a global thermonuclear war.
Perhaps there's been a backlash - I notice that in certain circumstances + is now working again, eg searching for 'proprietry' gets you 'proprietary', but '+proprietry' actually performs the search you require.
Anti-nuisance lawsuit warning: The purpose of these notes is to remind me, Zoegond, of stuff or to help me work stuff out. They may contain mistakes.
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