Is there a way to search Google requiring and excluding certain terms and phrases, any more?

One used to be able to do things on Google web search such as:

+hello George
– This would only give results that have “hello”, and favor ones with George as well.

+“bye bye” -Emilia
– This would only give results with the phrase inside the quotes, but not results which had Emilia

And there used to be an Advanced Search mode, which I see no way to get to, now.

Now, it seems to treat +Hello as a request to search for ”+Hello”, and so I don’t see any way to do useful combos requiring or excluding certain words or phrases.

There is a new “Tools” button which allows the “Verbatim” option, but that applies to the whole thing, so it’s massively lame compared to how it used to work.

Is there no way to get those good old features, or an equivalent?

If not from Google, is there a better current search engine someone recommends?