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Right now the API returns results in order of search relevance, and does not do date sorting or filtering. We are working to change this! In the mean time, you can always sort entries by date using the entry <published> or <updated> elements, although to do this correctly would mean you have to download all of the search results. In the future, the API will have a parameter that lets you do date sorting/filtering on search results.