Hey Google, where have you buried the timer (the timer that used to show up when you typed "Timer" in the search bar)? I used it last week, and now it's gone :'( @Google_Sverige @Google ...

Google’s updating the timer and stopwatch built into Search. Both tools get a fresh, colorful, responsive makeover, and a little new functionality. Either can be accessed from desktop or mobile alike.

Google Search has long featured a collection of simple tools, but the stopwatch and timer have mysteriously disappeared in the past day or so. Original 7/22: Searching for those terms today just ...

With Google Search, you can not only search the Internet by keyword, but also access functions such as calculator function and unit conversion. 'Timer' and 'stopwatch', which were hidden functions of ...

Google loves incorporating a plethora of hidden tools and features into Google Search, such as rolling dice, a colour picking tool, a metronome and even some games like Snake. However, one classic ...

Complains have been roaming around on Twitter that the ability to set the timer on Google is broken. A while ago, the company developed a popular feature of a stopwatch to allow people to set timers ...

30 days ago, the Google Search timer and stopwatch feature stopped working. Well, I am glad to report, that the stopwatch was fixed and it is now working again. I literally checked a couple of times a ...

The Google countdown timer and stopwatch feature seem to have stopped working. It seemed the Google stopwatch stopped ticking on July 18th. This feature first came up in Google about a decade ago. So ...

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