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Google Timer is gone

560 点作者 wuschel将近 3 年前

77 条评论

tyingq将近 3 年前
Since this post is recording its death, here&#x27;s the HN post that recorded its birth:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=6429564" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=6429564</a><p>Edit: Another blog post from someone that noticed it: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;googlesystem.blogspot.com&#x2F;2013&#x2F;08&#x2F;google-timer.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;googlesystem.blogspot.com&#x2F;2013&#x2F;08&#x2F;google-timer.html</a>
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mgdlbp将近 3 年前
A few years ago, Bing had a bunch of tools for developers: base64&#x2F;HTML&#x2F;URL codec, ASCII table, QR code generator, color picker, formatters, even the ability to run code in the browser on the servers of an online judge (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=11450385" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=11450385</a>)<p>One day they all just disappeared. I actually wasn&#x27;t the only one who noticed (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;techcommunity.microsoft.com&#x2F;t5&#x2F;microsoft-bing&#x2F;what-happened-to-the-tools-for-developers&#x2F;m-p&#x2F;2273389" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;techcommunity.microsoft.com&#x2F;t5&#x2F;microsoft-bing&#x2F;what-h...</a>)<p>I think I know why: the Bing blog implies that most of it was the passion project of a couple of summer interns in 2015. Probably it simply broke at some point, and no one was around to even notice.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blogs.bing.com&#x2F;search&#x2F;2015&#x2F;09&#x2F;02&#x2F;bing-rocks-two-new-tools-for-the-everyday-musician&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blogs.bing.com&#x2F;search&#x2F;2015&#x2F;09&#x2F;02&#x2F;bing-rocks-two-new-...</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blogs.bing.com&#x2F;search&#x2F;2015&#x2F;10&#x2F;08&#x2F;bing-adds-more-tools-for-developers&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blogs.bing.com&#x2F;search&#x2F;2015&#x2F;10&#x2F;08&#x2F;bing-adds-more-tool...</a><p>Here&#x27;s a larger list of Bing&#x27;s search features in various domains from 2018. Most are now inactive. There apparently was a timer as well. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;old.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;bing&#x2F;comments&#x2F;9oct9o&#x2F;psa_search_for_education_on_bing_to_bring_up_a&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;old.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;bing&#x2F;comments&#x2F;9oct9o&#x2F;psa_search_for...</a>
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kevincox将近 3 年前
This is almost certainly an accident. I remember when the Search SRE team got paged because some simple math formula wasn&#x27;t giving am answer box. Something like 42+7 giving 49. Turns out that this was getting classified as &quot;porn seeking&quot; and giving an empty results page if Safe Search was on. This probably would have never been noticed if there wasn&#x27;t a end-to-end prober test because this particular formula was an example in the Google Home instruction pamphlet.<p>Search is very a complex system and quite possibly there is a poor SRE looking into this right now.
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graderjs将近 3 年前
Trusty metronome is still there tho: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.google.com&#x2F;search?q=metronome" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.google.com&#x2F;search?q=metronome</a><p>Not having the timer feels a little sad, but if Google had done this 6 months ago, someone could have raised a 5M seed round for a blockchain based distributed timer app...
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freedomben将近 3 年前
I ran into this a few days ago and figured I had done something wrong. Fortunately Duck Duck Go has an acceptable timer: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;duckduckgo.com&#x2F;?q=timer" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;duckduckgo.com&#x2F;?q=timer</a>
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yababa_y将近 3 年前
So many of my professors have put this on the screen during an exam. Truly, a great blow to academia.
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nicksardo将近 3 年前
Shameless plug:<p>I created <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;chronograph.io" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;chronograph.io</a> back in 2014 so people can share <i>accurate</i>, live stopwatches and timers. Other sites &quot;share&quot; by putting the start epoch &amp; duration in a url querystring; Chronograph is one of the first to actually share a session with concurrent edits.<p>Of the years, it&#x27;s found a variety of use cases:<p>- Online scrum meetings.<p>- Recording starts &amp; stops of races when they&#x27;re geographically separated.<p>- Coordination of breaks between language interpreters.<p>- Syncing of podcast recording with multiple guests.<p>- Video game twitchers to broadcast when they&#x27;ll play
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crazygringo将近 3 年前
That&#x27;s weird.<p>Given how many other useful similar tools remain, it would seem extremely odd this was removed intentionally.<p>But on the other hand, given all of Google&#x27;s infra&#x2F;tests&#x2F;quality&#x2F;etc., it would also be extremely odd for this to be removed by accident.<p>Maybe some component being deprecated internally meant this was easier to shut down than upgrade, but for a feature this simple that wouldn&#x27;t make a lot of sense either.<p>This is... kinda baffling, to be honest.
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bhawks将近 3 年前
I&#x27;d be shocked that it was purposefully removed. There are so many search features that no one can count them (people were proud about that and also the fact there was no list of all of them).<p>Most likely a ranking change is stopping the feature from being triggered. Someone will read this and it&#x27;ll be silently fixed in a week or 2.
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staindk将近 3 年前
It may just be down temporarily.<p>I used to use this Google Search timer extensively until there was a period of time (years ago) where it didn&#x27;t work reliably for me - I think it counted down fine but then played no sound. Unsure if this affected others but I had to abandon it.<p>Funnily enough, the Google Clock timer on my phone (which I set via Google Assistant) has had a similar intermittent issue lately. It would count down to 0 properly, and then just continue past that to -1, -2, -3 seconds, on and on, and end up playing the alert audio like 2 minutes late. Weirdly, it knows that this is happening as there is no normal &#x27;dismiss&#x27; option until the sound actually starts playing.<p>Not the biggest deal when it&#x27;s my coffee timer being a bit late, but if it&#x27;s for something more time-sensitive in the oven it does actually matter.
evo_9将近 3 年前
DuckDuckGo has a very nice timer:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;duckduckgo.com&#x2F;?q=timer+&amp;t=newext&amp;atb=v265-1&amp;ia=answer" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;duckduckgo.com&#x2F;?q=timer+&amp;t=newext&amp;atb=v265-1&amp;ia=answ...</a>
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csours将近 3 年前
They were tired of having to smear leap seconds in the timer.<p>I mean, Google rolls over in bed and crushes $1mm products and does not even realize it.
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nayuki将近 3 年前
Triangle solver on the search results page is also gone. Here&#x27;s how it previously looked like: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;googlesystem.blogspot.com&#x2F;2014&#x2F;03&#x2F;google-geometry-calculator.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;googlesystem.blogspot.com&#x2F;2014&#x2F;03&#x2F;google-geometry-cal...</a>
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user3939382将近 3 年前
Let me take this opportunity to introduce you to one of my all-time favorite Mac apps <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;kristopherjohnson&#x2F;MenubarCountdown" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;kristopherjohnson&#x2F;MenubarCountdown</a><p>It performs its job perfectly.
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thisoneworks将近 3 年前
I used to use this as my pomodoro timer. Why do you be like that google..
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christophilus将近 3 年前
I’ve found DuckDuckGo’s timer to be useful. I just type “15 minute timer” into my address bar and go about my business.
sam1r将近 3 年前
It’s been gone for a few weeks. I wonder what the cause would be?
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twobitshifter将近 3 年前
Is it a feature that has gone app only? I can’t imagine you can no longer say “hey google set a 5 minute timer” since that’s one of the key use cases of digital assistants.
lathiat将近 3 年前
You used to be able to search “ip address” and get it direct. That also disappeared maybe a year or so ago. Annoying as all the other major hits at covered in ads.
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thecosmicfrog将近 3 年前
&quot;Remind me to &lt;thing&gt; at &lt;time&gt;&quot; has been dead for a while now too. I would use this several times daily.
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ernie24将近 3 年前
DuckDuckGo has a nice timer <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;duckduckgo.com&#x2F;?q=25+minutes+timer&amp;hps=1&amp;atb=v325-1&amp;ia=answer" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;duckduckgo.com&#x2F;?q=25+minutes+timer&amp;hps=1&amp;atb=v325-1&amp;...</a><p>Recently I&#x27;ve started using Kagi (I love it) and I am slightly dissapointed that it does not have any.
petercooper将近 3 年前
Search based things come and go and quite randomly, I&#x27;ve found. &quot;£1 in $&quot; is a search I&#x27;ve used perhaps 1000+ times over the years and while it&#x27;s been consistent for the past year or so, it often used to not return the currency conversion (but alternatives like &quot;1 GBP in USD&quot; did, etc.)
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rr888将近 3 年前
I kinda like Google not doing everything. When google starts to do all the little services like timers, conversions, speed tests there isn&#x27;t any room for anyone else. I just wish the alternatives weren&#x27;t so scummy.
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summerlight将近 3 年前
Unless it was found late, I guess it&#x27;s not an intentional launch but a bug. Today is Sunday and I believe Search prohibits making any significant production changes from happening Friday~Sunday.
thenerdhead将近 3 年前
Imagine removing a timer that helps all types of professions(teachers, parents, therapists, etc) to make more money.<p>Almost as if the mission statements conflict with each other to the point where a creator’s timer on YouTube leads to more selling of ads and thus makes them incentivized to remove it from search entirely.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.google.com&#x2F;search&#x2F;howsearchworks&#x2F;our-approach" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.google.com&#x2F;search&#x2F;howsearchworks&#x2F;our-approach</a><p>Hopefully is a fluke. I’ll be moving on if it’s not.
teekert将近 3 年前
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;duckduckgo.com&#x2F;?q=6+minute+timer&amp;t=fpas&amp;ia=answer" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;duckduckgo.com&#x2F;?q=6+minute+timer&amp;t=fpas&amp;ia=answer</a>
danicriss将近 3 年前
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.timer-tab.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.timer-tab.com&#x2F;</a> open source and you can customise it to any YouTube video you want, like a nightingale song for example: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;m.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=XdlIbNrki5o" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;m.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=XdlIbNrki5o</a>
ddp26将近 3 年前
This could be due to this functionality moving to the Google Assistant.<p>If you have a Pixel phone, you can have two &quot;Google search bars&quot;. I have one at the top of my homescreen (Google Search) and one at the bottom (Google Assistant). The one at the top sometime can&#x27;t handle tasks like &quot;set a timer&quot;!<p>IIRC, Search and Assistant used to be almost identical, but they keep diverging.
istjohn将近 3 年前
I&#x27;ve used <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;e.ggtimer.com&#x2F;6m30s" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;e.ggtimer.com&#x2F;6m30s</a> for years
edub将近 3 年前
Search Engine Roundtable reported it on July 21st (crediting Deccan Herald from the 20th) and said that Danny Sullivan is looking into it: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.seroundtable.com&#x2F;google-search-timer-stopwatch-stop-33790.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.seroundtable.com&#x2F;google-search-timer-stopwatch-s...</a>
faitswulff将近 3 年前
Unit conversions are far less useful now, too.
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robbiet480将近 3 年前
Tip calculator has been gone for a bit too.
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jfoster将近 3 年前
I had some fun making this over the past few hours: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;tocktimer.com" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;tocktimer.com</a><p>It&#x27;s a bit rough around the edges still, but I&#x27;ll try to improve it a bunch over the next few days, especially so if Google are not bringing back their timer.
Zigurd将近 3 年前
They are holding it hostage. When leap seconds are no longer a thing they will bring it back.
arthurdd将近 3 年前
I&#x27;ve hacked together my own replacement, as a mini project on my blog:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;arthurdick.com&#x2F;blog&#x2F;timer&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;arthurdick.com&#x2F;blog&#x2F;timer&#x2F;</a>
thement_将近 3 年前
I&#x27;ve noticed it stopped working about a month ago. That&#x27;s why I made my own: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;thement&#x2F;figlet-timer" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;thement&#x2F;figlet-timer</a>
chrismcb将近 3 年前
It would be nice if this was a link that explained what happened. Right now the link is to search and that didn&#x27;t tell me anything. Presumably it used to pop up a timer, but how am I supposed to know that?
butz将近 3 年前
Nothing of value was lost, considering that opening after opening google.com you have to dismiss cookies page, and do it every time if you, as you should, use google.com in private mode.
effingwewt将近 3 年前
What was that people were saying about Google doing things different with their C++ replacement?<p>This right here is just one more reason why I will never trust google.<p>If it&#x27;s not ads it&#x27;s not pertinent.
b0afc375b5将近 3 年前
I was planning on creating a timer on my home page anyway. At the very least I&#x27;m thankful for google for the timer. It has served me well on many occasions. Rest in peace.
dudeinjapan将近 3 年前
They are repurposing it for their International Timer Day doodle.
ChrisArchitect将近 3 年前
more like it&#x27;s moved directly and solely into Google Assistant options. This is for a number of handy utilities that used to be available directly from search. Another example is ability to set a calendar reminder directly from a search &quot;remind me tuesday at 8am&quot;. Annoying but part of larger push to funnel all of these queries that started as search into Assistant. (annoying because why do I have to use voice to do the query etc)
dannysullivan将近 3 年前
I work for Google Search. Yes, we’ve been looking into this.
0x69420将近 3 年前
thank god honestly<p>i really dislike the prospect of a search engine turning into a one-stop shop; im convinced (intuitively, with absolutely zero hard evidence), that settling on an instinctive default of &quot;punch it into google&quot; rots the brain, maybe because when i was young my dad asked why the hell i was typing $WEBSITE into the browser search bar (remember when those were separate?) instead of just entering website.com directly into the url bar
ec109685将近 3 年前
Heh, the first result now is a YouTube view w&#x2F; ads.
svnpenn将近 3 年前
FYI Windows has a built in tool &quot;Alarms &amp; Clock&quot;, which includes a Clock, Timer and Stopwatch. I use it pretty much every day.
wuschel将近 3 年前
Google seems to have shut down the integrated timer .
robertakarobin将近 3 年前
I used this all the time when teaching! Why, Google?
28304283409234将近 3 年前
No love for <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;e.ggtimer.com&#x2F;6minutes" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;e.ggtimer.com&#x2F;6minutes</a> ?
ricardo81将近 3 年前
Had noticed their &#x27;mortgage calculator&#x27; had disappeared for a few months, at least in the UK. It&#x27;s since been revived.
switchstance将近 3 年前
Why wouldn’t they remove it? It’s in their best interest to send you to an alternative page where they can show you advertisements.
superb-owl将近 3 年前
This is probably a temporary glitch. Google search is a complicated ecosystem, and fails gracefully.<p>My guess is it&#x27;ll be back up by Monday.
elforce002将近 3 年前
I didn&#x27;t even know that was a thing.
dannyw将近 3 年前
Now that it&#x27;s on the front page of HN, it will probably be fixed and come back within two workdays.
VoodooJuJu将近 3 年前
lol, past few days I&#x27;ve missed this. Was always the most convenient way for me to set a tea timer.
stuckinhell将近 3 年前
I guess I need to roll my own timer.
esher将近 3 年前
Workaround: macOS Ventura has a Clock.app including a Timer. It can be set from Spotlight.
canacrypto将近 3 年前
Ditto for stopwatch. Whyyyyyyy?
jupp0r将近 3 年前
Google Home is still doing timers, which happens to be my main use case for it.
ktzar将近 3 年前
It all started to go down when they went public. There&#x27;s no ethos anymore.
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saagarjha将近 3 年前
Sounds like this was the first thing Google killed in its Simplicity Sprint.
thieving_magpie将近 3 年前
Take away inbox and rss reader but at least leave the timer!
Havoc将近 3 年前
I’m told this saves 200k stopwatches per financial quarter
dannysullivan将近 3 年前
I work for Google Search. Yes, we’re looking into this.
tjpnz将近 3 年前
Probably couldn&#x27;t find a way of monetizing it.
frays将近 3 年前
As an ex-teacher, I hope this comes back.
orangepanda将近 3 年前
killedbygoogle.com Claims another victim
jaimex2将近 3 年前
Find my phone also seems to be dead.
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ngcc_hk将近 3 年前
You can’t trust Google. Period.
rthomas6将近 3 年前
Still works on duck duck go. :)
adham-omran将近 3 年前
M-x org-timer-set-timer then.
superchroma将近 3 年前
did... this have a cost? are there any savings at all?
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gab007将近 3 年前
&quot;Google does not care about their users&quot;. Well.. I am not sure about that, but there is always the option of not using Google products, or using as few as possible Google products.<p>- I&#x27;ve closed my G Suite legacy free edition (as opposed to transitioning to paid)<p>- I&#x27;ve moved away and stopped using Gmail, Drive, Photos and Keep<p>I am still using maps &amp; youtube - these are a bit tricky to replace.<p>No hard-feelings, Google is no longer the company&#x2F;innovator it used to be (remember back on 2005 got an invitation for gmail, and I was over the moon).
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peanut_worm将近 3 年前
Why does google do things like this
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nso将近 3 年前
They also recently removed the phone finder. I often used to Google &quot;where is my phone&quot; and use the quick widget. That&#x27;s now gone.
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danielfoster将近 3 年前
This is at least amazing for a few lucky website owners and YouTubers.<p>Maybe someone in the EU anti-trust area discovered Google had a timer and threatened to fine them?
doodlesdev将近 3 年前
I don&#x27;t get it, why do people use the &quot;google timer&quot; or any kind of online stopwatch, like, any modern desktop environment comes with a timer application, and it even works offline!!! I get using currency conversion (since that&#x27;s data that changes) and a few other functions. But really, seriously, can someone explain to me what was the use-case for this?
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