Now Google seems to really want me to see what its ML model thinks is in the image. No, when I upload a picture of an actor, I'm not trying to search for pictures of "adult" or "man". Or, my recent favorite that had three people in the image, a suggested search for "sharing".
Humans make so many typos that for the majority of people, autocorrecting is a net win.
And autocorrect is a net loss if you can't correct the autocorrect.
There is verbatim and back in the day this is also what doublequotes meant.
Google has gotten away by blaming it on spam since back when matt_cutts was here, but I fail to see how spam can possibly be the reason why neither doublequotes nor verbatim works (edit:) unless spammers have found their way into Googles ranking algorithm to neuter all exact match operators.
Sometimes you need to search an intentional misspelling, say, "Aple" (just an example), Google will helpfully try to correct you with "did you mean Apple?", and even if you put the word in quotes you still get results for Apple, not my intentionally misspelled search. Listen to what I'm trying to tell you, dumb machine.
They've tweaked it so it only respond to what it thinks you want to search, not what you've asked of it, and there's no way around it.
Computers are so much better when they take your input literally.