NEWS (heh it contains new) is important to be up-to-date and recent.
But so many things are olds and you should give more weight to older pagerank-verified pages.
They've really let the core search experience be deteriorated so extensively, that we can't blame all of it on SEO.
It would open up a whole new world of chronological meta analysis; a new dimension of cross-referencing.
[I understand that Google has, or had, some limited incarnation of this, in the form of it's Time Range search, but - and without looking deeply into it - I suspect that is an algorithmically different procedure than the one I am describing. That is, I expect that applies a simple filter to a current search, rather than being The Actual Old Search Results]
So recency bias kinda works against people discovering useful content. But whatever. Google is in decline anyways.
I just ran a Google search on some code I was working on 15 years ago, posted to blogspot.com. It was about card game X, using programming language Y. The relevant keywords appear in the blog post. However, it completely failed to show up in a Google search. Just... nothing, even when I scrolled through the "more results" stuff. There were relevant and more recent links to the same topic (and likely better implemented, but let's leave that aside).
I did find my page on a Bing search after getting it to not ignore an important keyword, so that's something.
There are way too many google searches where the best result was the top 10 years ago, and still should be the top. Instead it’s something from this year that has no information.
Googling is now like talking to that person who repeats your question back to you as a statement, as if they added to the conversations. The results are some social media manager who’s job it is to make “content” by writing filler.
This is not even getting into censorship of any political thing that google employees dislike.