Quotes for exact phrases - make this easier

I've noticed that someone has given the idea the thumbs down - I can't understand why.
There is a similar function on the browser I use and it's absolutely brilliant. I'm only talking about a simple button which you could click to insert quotes around words prior to a doing a search. For exact phrase searches, it would elminate the advanced search stage completely and so make searching a good deal quicker.

To those who have voted/vote against ... Could you paste a comment here about why you think it would be a bad idea?

I voted against, I like clean and simple interface and I like when any given control makes sense to me particularly in very specific service like a search engine.

Only power-users know the difference between quoted search and not quoted search. Most of the others don't care so they don't need that button which basicely means that the button won't be used by the vast majority of users.

My 2 cents :)

Anyway could be a choice in the filter bar in the result page, maybe something like "refine on exact phrase only".

Don't know if it would be useful or even used by it seems to me more meaningful.

Hi Nel. Thanks for responding!
I take your point about cluttering up the page, and I think your suggestion about a filter in the results page is a good one. In the browser I use that is actually what happens: on the results page you can hit a button to search again for the same thing, but in quotes. I'd be happy with that.
What I don't like at the moment is doing an unquoted search, not finding what I want, and then having to go to the Advanced Search page to erase the original search words and type them in again between quotes. With your suggestion, you could do an unquoted search and then, if you were unhappy with the results, just click once, with no additional typing, to get a 'quoted' search. So can we agree on that idea? : )

Yup ! I changed my vote :)

Many thanks Nel. (Internet democracy at work!)
Now let's see if the Exalead design team like the idea! : )

The button you propose would be excellent. And it would indeed save time or at least would mean that the user did not have to release the mouse to type quotes: uninterrupted clicking could continue! (And the quotes are something that I always find it difficult to locate on the keyboard!)
I never have had to split a query. What mostly happens to me is that I either forget to put in the quotes around a group of words before I start searching or I realise that I need the quotes when I don't get a decent result from searching for an unquoted group of words.