"Even Google Search, their flagship product, stopped focusing on the history of the web. In 2011, Google removed the Timeline view letting users filter search results by date, while a series of major changes to their search ranking algorithm increasingly favored freshness over older pages from established sources. (To the detriment of some.)"
I don't know if this is what they mean, but I can search by date just fine:
Overall, I agree with the article, but we have the internet archive for the internet, perhaps it's time for another organization for everything else. I am sure there are those organizations, but they don't seem all that large or effective.
I think the difference is that the date search is for finding stuff that was originally posted / crawled in that date range. (I believe) the original comment was regarding searching some HTML, for example, as it was at that date.
That is to say: if you had a page that changed over time, you would be able to search for that page as it existed in a particular date range, not just searching for a page that was posted / first crawled in that range.
"Even Google Search, their flagship product, stopped focusing on the history of the web. In 2011, Google removed the Timeline view letting users filter search results by date, while a series of major changes to their search ranking algorithm increasingly favored freshness over older pages from established sources. (To the detriment of some.)"
I don't know if this is what they mean, but I can search by date just fine:
http://imgur.com/e1tEq4M
Perhaps it's just not as clear of a view?
Overall, I agree with the article, but we have the internet archive for the internet, perhaps it's time for another organization for everything else. I am sure there are those organizations, but they don't seem all that large or effective.