Date Default at Google Reader

Google Reader has changed its default sort to date (in reverse chronological order) according to the Official Google Reader Blog in its Your Wish is Our Command. Google always seems to drag its feet with date sorts. With Web results, date sorting is quite problematic since most Web pages do not have a reliable date. So date sorting of Web results rarely is useful. But with news and other published sources, date sorting is easy and helpful. While Google gives the option for a date sort in Google News, it is not the default. Meanwhile, neither Google Books nor Google Scholar even offer the option. Google Scholar's strange "recent articles" addition a few months ago is not much of a substitute since it just limits to recent years and then does another relevance sort. So if a wish is really a command to Google, here's a wish for a real date sort at Scholar and Books and for a default date sort at Google News and Scholar.