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 restriction in news tab, we found a bug we hope to fix soon.”
This is a screenshot of this feature:
Here is that tweet:
NOTE: if you’re searching with date restriction in news tab, we found a bug we hope to fix soon. Was really helpful getting reports from people with actual searches to help track that down. Not using quotes in that mode when date restricting seems to help but we’ll get it sorted.
— Danny Sullivan (@dannysullivan) November 19, 2021
Here is some examples of it not working:
Yes, pretty sure we’ve spotted a bug that were working through now. I’ll update you when I know more. Again, the examples were really helpful.
— Danny Sullivan (@dannysullivan) November 17, 2021