Google timer

This totally freaked me out.<p>I clicked the link to be opened in a new tab - and continued what I was doing.<p>I heard that beeping sound, and was completely baffled where it was coming from (didn&#x27;t sound like it was coming from the speakers).<p>You should have seen me picking up papers on my desk listening to them. I listened to every potential port on my phone to see if it was giving off this sound.<p>I felt like I was going crazy while I was doing it, but I just couldn&#x27;t figure out the source of the sound. Thinking back, if a camera was in my office, that woulda been hella funny to watch.

Interesting side effect. There&#x27;s this web site: <a href="http://www.online-stopwatch.com/timer/1hour/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.online-stopwatch.com&#x2F;timer&#x2F;1hour&#x2F;</a><p>which comes up top of the google search results for &quot;timer for 1 hour&quot; for me. Now there is absolutely no way they can compete with Google&#x27;s own offering from an SEO perspective.<p>While this example is trivial to some extent, does it set a precedent that while you can advertise and compete with Google, they can always have the unfair advantage at being top of the list.

Yet again I am reminded that my google is not necessarily the same as &#x27;your&#x27; google<p>Just like how &quot;define: something&quot; doesn&#x27;t show a dictionary definiton for me anymore, a functionality i used all the time. And now can&#x27;t be sure whether was actually removed, or just removed for me!

Nothing happens at that page for me. Could the reason be that I&#x27;m redirected to google.se (which does not have this feature, yet)?

Google probably review their top searches periodically to determine utility related keywords and custom fit solutions to them.<p>It seems that if they continue to do things this way, sooner or later, Google is likely to replace thousands of utility websites.<p>This seems like a change in their philosophy from sending users to other websites in as little time as possible, to using Google as a portal.<p>Interestingly, this change in philosophy by Yahoo from a search engine to a portal was what made Yahoo lose out to Google.

If you want to break it, search for &quot;timer for 23 hours 59 minutes 60 seconds&quot; ... For some reason the code seems to be configured to max out at 24 hours. I am too busy dealing with my own broken JavaScript code to take a look, but maybe someone here can view source and figure out why they made that decision?

What am I supposed to be seeing? There is no special behaviour when I do this search.

A script I use for this occasionally:<p><pre><code> #!&#x2F;usr&#x2F;bin&#x2F;env ruby done = Time.now + ARGV[0].to_i while(true) do sleep(10) `say &quot;Time&#x27;s up!&quot;` if Time.now &gt; done end </code></pre> Or the alarm clock version:<p><pre><code> #!&#x2F;usr&#x2F;bin&#x2F;env ruby require &#x27;time&#x27; done = Time.parse(ARGV[0]) while(true) do sleep(10) `say &quot;Time&#x27;s up!&quot;` if Time.now &gt; done end</code></pre>

TAKE OUT YOUR HEADPHONES<p>(I&#x27;m shouting both because it&#x27;s very important advice and because I&#x27;m now deaf)

Pomodoro Bookmarklet (powered by Google timer):<p>1. Create new bookmarklet<p>2. Name: Pomodoro<p>3. URL: javascript:window.open(&quot;<a href="https://www.google.com/?gws_rd=cr#q=&quot;+((document.title.indexOf(&quot;25&quot;)&gt;-1" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.google.com&#x2F;?gws_rd=cr#q=&quot;+((document.title.index...</a>)?&quot;&quot;:&quot;2&quot;)+&quot;5+minute+timer&amp;safe=off&quot;,&#x27;_self&#x27;);<p>4. Save<p>Click on the bookmarklet to toggle between &quot;Work&quot; and &quot;Break&quot; mode.

Also works with<p><pre><code> timer &lt;time of day&gt; </code></pre> E.g. timer 7am<p>Original Reddit link that started it all: <a href="http://www.reddit.com/r/YouShouldKnow/comments/1j3pnv/ysk_use_google_as_a_stopwatch_with_its_set_timer/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;YouShouldKnow&#x2F;comments&#x2F;1j3pnv&#x2F;ysk_us...</a>

I don&#x27;t get anything special - Google Chrome on OSX

It&#x27;s not perfect though, this link will start a timer for 1 minute, not 24 hours and 1 minute:<p><a href="https://www.google.com/#q=timer+23+hours+61+minutes" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.google.com&#x2F;#q=timer+23+hours+61+minutes</a>

Noticed that Alfred&#x27;s default search URL for Google wouldn&#x27;t work with the timer: <a href="http://www.google.com/search?q=set+timer+for+10+seconds" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.google.com&#x2F;search?q=set+timer+for+10+seconds</a><p>It has to be <a href="https://www.google.com/#q=timer+for+10+seconds" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.google.com&#x2F;#q=timer+for+10+seconds</a> so I made a custom search URL and can now use the timer through Alfred.

Actually this seems ridiculously convenient, if I&#x27;m sitting at my computer (which I almost always am). Easier than picking up my phone and setting a timer, even.

Doesn&#x27;t work for me in Safari 6.1 or latest Chrome. (Strangely worked on google.co.uk but doesn&#x27;t work on .com)

Works better than timer &#x2F; alert functionality of Google Now which is horribly broken. (At first I thought it was just rounding errors, with 25 minutes being set to 24 minutes, but I can&#x27;t explain a 3 minute difference easily with rounding errors, which has happened to me. )

Can&#x27;t resist mentioning my small timer site from several years ago: <a href="http://clockster.net" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;clockster.net</a>. Takes RESTful urls, like <a href="http://clockster.net/3min30s" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;clockster.net&#x2F;3min30s</a>.

I built something for this exact purpose a few weeks ago. Surprisingly, I would put it&#x27;s functionality in one of the top 10 things I use now.<p><a href="http://errk.se/remind_me_after/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;errk.se&#x2F;remind_me_after&#x2F;</a>

Seems to be limited to 1 second short of 1 day. What good is that? I want a timer that counts down to my favorite console launch. (I am not saying which one because I figure if I choose the wrong console I won&#x27;t get any upvotes)

Yay, I broke it :-)<p><a href="https://www.google.com.au/?q=timer+for+23+hours+59+minutes+60+seconds#q=timer+for+23+hours+59+minutes+60+seconds" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.google.com.au&#x2F;?q=timer+for+23+hours+59+minutes+6...</a>

Announced over 6 weeks ago at <a href="http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2013/08/google-timer.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;googlesystem.blogspot.com&#x2F;2013&#x2F;08&#x2F;google-timer.html</a>

I had to reset all my <i>.google.</i> cookies to work logged with the Google user it works, but when I sign in with the secondary google apps for domains user it stops working for some reason

Fancy, however, I still prefer things like <a href="http://e.ggtimer.com/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;e.ggtimer.com&#x2F;</a> as it allows other functions such as a Pomodoro timer.

This is what they&#x27;re working on while shutting down Reader? Guh. And yes, I will make a similar comment every time they roll out some inconsequential new product or feature.

Here&#x27;s your poached egg timer...<p><a href="https://www.google.com/#q=timer+for+3+minutes+30+seconds" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.google.com&#x2F;#q=timer+for+3+minutes+30+seconds</a>

<a href="http://www.google.com/help/features.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.google.com&#x2F;help&#x2F;features.html</a>

For the Google QA person who is inevitably reading this: &quot;timer for 23 hours and 59 minutes and 60 seconds&quot;

For those of us Europeans where this doesn&#x27;t work: it works on Incognito Mode in Chrome.

you can combine this with the voice option from search, nice way to speak out loud and have this timer set. I&#x27;ve set up a custom shortcut for triggering voice search ( besides the Ctrl+Shift+.) and works like a charm.

just wrote something similar in 60 lines of JavaScript: <a href="http://requirebin.com/embed?gist=6668018" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;requirebin.com&#x2F;embed?gist=6668018</a>

I really miss per-application volume control (like in Windows).

Yet another case of Google inconsistencies.

Doesn&#x27;t work on Chrome for Android

Doesnt work in my Nightly 27.0a1

No fortnight support?

doesn&#x27;t work as expected in Bulgaria