My wife's friends told her it would be fun to google her name, last
name is unusual enough that Google should only return a few results.

So she googled the web for her name as a phrase
 [ " characters included ]

 "firstname lastname"

and got 295 hits.

Problem is that only the top hit is valid, the rest of the results
have our last name in them, but NOT adjacent to her first name.
Looking at the cached versions is no help.

Anyone know what's up with this or a workaround to only get results
with the requested phrase ?   I have used Google for years and think I
know what I am doing, maybe I am falling victim to a new "feature" ?

SafeSearch Filtering in my preferences is set to:  Use moderate
filtering (Filter explicit images only - default behavior)

but this shouldn't matter anyway.

TIA,  QE in NJ