GOOGLE - REMOVES Date search! Old news lost in newer search results.

I tried searching for "Mask sneeze image" with a date range BEFORE 2019.....

I do the date search from time to time to avoid political/SEO pushes to hide older news with new results.

Face mask info is perfect - plenty of research BEFORE 2020 that isn't influenced by politics.

But it's gone..... the date ranges are "Up to a year ago" "Up to a month", "Up to a week"..... ALL INCLUDE THE CURRENT DATE!

Making it EASY to hide "real" news behind a pile of crap SEO optimized pushed recently.

After googling a while (hah irony).... I discovered they started removing it last year:

[link to searchengineland.com (secure)]

So now we need to do this to get rid of political shit:

"mask sneeze image before:01-01-2019"