Looking at the recent hype around Joran van der Sloot and his role in the disappearance of Natalee Holloway, this seems to be one of the functions that Google is still missing. It does support searching in blogs and news sites, but when I Google for Joran van der Sloot, I find old news.

Photo by Daniel Morris

Google could make it’s functionality just a little bigger, by implementing this function. It wouldn’t take too much effort for Google to implement, since it stores the time and date on which the page was found. It’s easy to add a single checkbox, wether or not to sort on news value (in combination with relevance, to keep the level of results high). Read more »