[pradn]

The way search works:

1) terms are split into tokens 2) tokens are looked up to find documents 3) documents are ranked by scoring functions

I suspect sorting by chronological order might require too many document metadatas to be retrieved at step 2. (A lot of filtering occurs between steps 2 and 3.)

[johncena33]

A simple explanation is product-wise this feature request doesn't make sense. The number of users will be using the said feature is not worth the effort the amount of effort needed to implement, maintain and operationalize in a product of literally billion users.