There are new reports at the Google News Help forum that Google has removed the "sort by date" feature on the left hand side after conducting a news search. The feature first introduced in May 2007 ...
Google Sheets, Microsoft Excel, and other spreadsheet software offer powerful sorting tools to help you rearrange your data. Knowing how to sort your spreadsheets makes the data easier to see and use.
Danny Sullivan, the Search Liaison at Google Search, confirmed there is a bug with the sort by date feature in the Google Search news tab. Danny said on Twitter "if you're searching with date ...
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