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Back then adding a word to a search query also made it more specific. You could easily narrow a search down to just a few results, or no result at all if that specific combination of words had never been written. Now adding another search term just makes the search less specific.
You can try to approximate the old behavior by wrapping every single word in quote marks but it's not the same.