I didn't think phrase matching (quotes) was ever broken? I know Google dropped the "+" filter a while back, but I still continue to use phrase matching quite heavily, and it seems to still work as it always has.
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The string matching is fuzzy though. It is case insensitive and it ignores at least some non-alphanumeric characters.
For example, "twenty-four" will return results about the TV show "Twenty Four" as well as results for "twenty four" and "twenty-four".
There's some other maddening exceptions for those who would prefer exact string matching, but I can't remember them all and it's changed over the years too.