It's not just you with Google, I think... They seem to have changed how the queries are done, because now my results aren't actually related to the exact words I'm using -- it's really frustrating! (I put in "murderer" to look something up earlier, and instead I got a lot of pages just with the word "murder" on them...)

I admit that with all of the problems I've been having with Google lately, I've often been wandering over to Teoma instead...they're not great, but their results are starting to be more reliable. :-(