Why is this "Google is the worst" thread all small and old? Google is the worst!
Official Google Blog: Google+ Pages: connect with all the things you care about
They disabled the boolean + and replaced it with OH YEAH NO I REALLY MEAN IT "quotes," which are a gigantic pain in the ass and stupid and do not work; and it turns out that it's all so they could roll out this great new feature to solve the giant problem we all have of where you can't find the corporate branding site for Pepsi.
Oh god, what a great solution for such a terrible problem.