[elcapitan]

Which is also a good filter for web searches to exclude a lot of garbage results (if the specific search makes sense for non-recent results)

[dijit]

Except many search engines have a recency bias.

A sane default previously; as news changes and the status quo also, but it makes you even more likely to encounter slop now.

[elcapitan]

Not sure how that changes the fact that you can filter by date range in searches where you don't actually need anything recent?