This will allow you to choose the order that your results are returned:

Relevancy - How relevant the document is to your search terms
Hit Count - # of times your query is matched in the document
Date Ascending - The date the document was created, oldest first
Date Descending - The date the document was created, newest first

Here you can choose to display additional information for each item on the search results page.
Click the checkbox next to the items you want to display:

Relevancy Score
Hit Count
Date of content

If you are looking for multiple words in your query, you can choose to add a proximity filter. In essence,
you can tell the query how close the words need to be to each other. For example, a search for php code will return
different results if searched without a proximity condition, than with a proximity of 2 words.

Search words must be within: None 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100 word(s) sentence(s) paragraph(s) of each other.

Use these options to limit the documents by the date they were created:

None - Return documents for all dates
1 Week - Only return documents created within the last 7 days
1 Month - Only return documents created within the last 30 days
3 Months - Only return documents created within the last 90 days
6 Months - Only return documents created within the last 180 days