[weird_user]

Actually, google's paid search API can order by date, ascending or descending.

Checkout this example:

https://quackquackgo.net/?q=hacker+news&lr=&qqg-date=&qqg-ra...

[EnergyAmy]

I don't understand how the dates work on that. On the search you linked, the first result is an HN post with a date listed as "2000-09-18", but if you click the link, the post was from 3 months ago.

[weird_user]

This is probably because the HN page doesn't contain the document date metadata. So google just picked a random date from that page.

[viraptor]

I love this! Often when searching for some event I want the first report, not the spam that followed. Thank you for showing me this service.