> I wish there was a mode for "do as I ask"

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.