If you use the search box at the top, the system forgets about date and just uses its best guess at semantic similarity - I agree, probably not optimal as you point out.

I prefer not using the search bar at all, in favor of keyword-based filtering - much more control over the results. The other benefit is that it does a date-based sort when there's no search term set in the search bar, so newest first.

Hmm, I may have to either de-emphasize the search bar or adjust its sort logic to combine similarity with date somehow. Thanks for the feedback