For a short while last year, you could access a countdown timer directly via Google Search on the desktop. To do so, you just had to do the obvious, like type ‘set timer for 10 minutes’. In October, ...

You can set a quick timer by typing, "set timer X minutes" into Google. Once you hit enter, the timer will count down, and then sound off when the time expires with an obnoxious, possibly never ending ...

If you google “15 minute timer,” or any length of time like that, then Google will automatically open and start that timer. But it will also show you several YouTube timers of that length. They’re not ...

The feature is not completely gone as users can give their smartphones a voice command (either through Search or Google Assistant) to set up a timer and it will work, partially. On Android devices, ...

Google hasn’t been doing a great job with setting timers in Search, which has up until now simply set an alarm in your default alarm clock app, but it seems Google has finally listened and has added ...