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Google Search's 'Recent' Filter Stops Working Across Desktop and Mobile

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Google Search and News tabs experienced a bug preventing the 'Recent' filter from working, which was confirmed and fixed within hours.

SERoundtable reports that Google Search users were unable to filter results by recency across both desktop and mobile devices, with the issue affecting both standard search and the Google News tab for several hours on August 1–2, 2026. Google's Rajan Patel confirmed the team was debugging the problem and shipped a fix the following morning, though a workaround using the "Relevance" sort-by-date option remained available during the outage.
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