“Sort by date”. It’s one of those features that you browse to a site and wonder “how did they miss that?”, because it just makes doing a real literature search with Google Scholar a pain.

Unless it’s just buried in some undocumented syntax? It isn’t an option in the advanced search page.

There’s also the idea of a general media similarity search that I mentioned earlier, but I’ve proposed this both during the first Summer of Code and when I interviewed at the NYC office (and I even gave them my BACH paper the second time to give them an idea of how to do it for music!), and neither time was it acted upon, so I’m going to shut up about that one. I did, however, suggest it to Yahoo!, who seems closer to having that sort of search than Google does at the moment.