I have been finding recently that Google has been breaking their existing "sort", "time" filters. Try searching for something with site:reddit.com prefix for example and set the time filter to be lets say "Last year". Google still shows you results from 4-5 years ago.
I also discovered that recently. It's gone the way of the verbatim constraint.
Control is being forfeited to steer users back to more profitable content in order to capitalize on a captive market.
I wonder if being open about it would be so bad for business, instead of the attempt to manipulate users into enjoying the ratcheting-up of their impotence.
Now, Youtube truncates search results and loads the recommendation stream instead, long before hits are exhausted.
At least it's been a while since Silicon Valley was keeping the mythical personalized advertising spiel in active circulation.