[I think nobody posted about it. If I'm wrong, please kill this post.]

When you search with the view:timeline operator, Google shows no more a timeline (...), i.e. snippets are broken down not into "sequentially listed dates", but into sites. E.g. compare this
google.com/views?q=alan+moore+ ...
with the screenshot taken by Philipp in May 2007:

blogoscoped.com/files/google-t ...