I guess that Googler never uses Google.
It's very hard to find anything on Google older than or more relevant than Taylor Swift's latest breakup.
This is not the same as saying that it doesn't prioritize newer pages over older pages in the search results.
The way it's worded does sound like it could imply the latter thing, but that may have just been poor writing.
Our ranking system with freshness is explained more here: https://developers.google.com/search/docs/appearance/ranking...
But we do show older content, as well. I find often when people are frustrated they get newer content, it's because of that crossover where there's something fresh happening related to the query.
If you haven't tried, consider our before: and after: commands. I hope we'll finally get these out of beta status soon, but they work now. You can do something like before:2023 and we wouldn't show pages from before 2023 (to the best we can determine dates). They're explained more here: https://twitter.com/searchliaison/status/1115706765088182272
With archive search, the News section floats links like https://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/09/arts/music/09cara.html