Fresh Toggle: Visitors Can Push Recent Results Up the Ranking on Any Search Page

A Fresh toggle on your search page, for whoever is searching. It sits beside the sort controls and pushes recent documents up the ranking — a page published today counts about twice as much as the same page a year old. It only changes the ORDER: nothing is hidden, the result count is identical, and documents with no date keep the place their relevance earns them. Off by default, and the choice rides in the URL, so a fresh-biased search can be bookmarked and shared and it survives paging and facet clicks. How much recency matters depends on the question being asked, not on the index, which is why it belongs to the visitor rather than to a settings screen. Available on the hosted search page, in the Drupal module, the WordPress plugin, and as a fresh_bias option in the LangChain, LlamaIndex, Haystack, MCP and Laravel packages.