There was a comment from two weeks ago on that 2009 article that said Google was back down. But I'm still having no problems. Maybe it's only in certain areas?
I'm pretty sure there's a button near the top right of your feed to change it from "top posts" to "recent posts" Nope, they got rid of it in last night's update. At least top news was in order though. Well, that' kind of stupid. Usually when I check Facebook, all the top news is from 20 hours ago.