In 2009, Google introduced a timeline search feature that let searchers look for web, news, etc content across the web by date range.

Google Blogoscoped has an old picture of it:

Searchers are not happy about it. There is a thread gaining steam over the weekend at Google Web Search Help forum with the complaints.

Some users are forming petitions:

Kelly from Google is the one who has to respond to them and she said:

I also captured a video of how it worked back then:

Do you miss it?

Forum discussion at Google Web Search Help.