I just tried it, and it seems to me like it shows the timer only on google.com, not on the Google-domain for my country, so maybe that was a factor. The other c

I just tried it, and it seems to me like it shows the timer only on google.com, not on the Google-domain for my country, so maybe that was a factor. The other comment pointed out more inconsistencies, though, so might really just be Google's algorithm judging at random who's allowed to get a timer and who not. DuckDuckGo's implementation [0] seems more robust to me, but if you don't use it as your default search engine, it's probably easier anyways to just click on the first link in the Google search results (or use Cortana obviously). And yeah, you do need to leave the tab open until it ends. I don't see that as that big of a flaw as you do, since most people have a browser open all the time anyways, but yeah, whatever floats your boat. Certainly isn't terrible to have another option for it. [0] https://duckduckgo.com/?q=5+minute+timer https://duckduckgo.com/?q=5+minute+timer