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Please please please fix "sort by date" filter. Searching for "natural language processing" returns 3,330,000 results with the default "sort by relevance" and 4
by soyiuz 9y ago
Please please please fix "sort by date" filter. Searching for "natural language processing" returns 3,330,000 results with the default "sort by relevance" and 4,730 with "sort by date."
- userbinator 9y agoI've noticed this completely nonsensical behaviour with regular Google too. "Sort by" shouldn't ever be a "filter" --- but an ordering. The result counts are usually highly inflated and approximate anyway (i.e. can you eventually actually get all 3M+ results?), so perhaps they don't mean all that much. The best explanation for that anomaly, which is more of an excuse, is that they don't want to spend computing power sorting all the results. Nevermind the fact that sorting by date is probably much easier than computing "relevance" and sorting by that...
- popcorncolonel 9y agoAnd they're from 4 days ago... What about the arXiv papers that were posted yesterday?
- aargh_aargh 9y agoOnly guessing, but maybe they don't have a date for the rest. In that case one of the sensible things to do is what they seem to be doing - only showing those for which they do have a date.