Sadly, you are in a minority. Google's results are excellent for most people.
I used to use + often. We know that the + operator was rarely used, and most of those times it wasn't used correctly. (Of all searches, only 1 in 600 were correctly using the + operator.)
Being outside Google (and not able to see their data) is frustrating, but they have a lot of numbers and they do this stuff because they can show it helps most people.
