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Google timer
- waster 13y agoActually this seems ridiculously convenient, if I'm sitting at my computer (which I almost always am). Easier than picking up my phone and setting a timer, even.
- unicornporn 13y agoNothing happens at that page for me. Could the reason be that I'm redirected to google.se (which does not have this feature, yet)?
- kalleboo 13y agoI tried it on google.com/ncr and it didn't work there either...
- repsilat 13y agoI had to hit "Request desktop site" for it to work for me (Chrome, Android, Australia.)
- batiudrami 13y agoIt showed for me in Chrome, but not in Firefox. The same with Google's new flat icon/grid services homepage, actually.
- namenotrequired 13y agoIt didn't work for me on Epic, but it did in Firefox.
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- thomasd 13y agoGoogle probably review their top searches periodically to determine utility related keywords and custom fit solutions to them. It seems that if they continue to do things this way, sooner or later, Google is likely to replace thousands of utility websites. 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. Interestingly, this change in philosophy by Yahoo from a search engine to a portal was what made Yahoo lose out to Google.
- shubhamjain 13y agoShould'nt they try doing some kind of partnership with WolframAlpha which is way ahead in NLP and producing useful results. I would love to see WolframAlpha results integrated within Google when they can be interpreted by the software.
- chrisfarms 13y agoI think all these kind of searches fall under the "conversational search" goals that they are now aiming for. Conversion: https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=150+GBP+in+USD https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=150+GBP+in+USD Weather: https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=temp+in+london https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=temp+in+london
- jfoster 13y agoExcept that this is a very different approach to being a portal. Yahoo filled their front-page with items that wouldn't be relevant except for some tiny percentage of the time, such that even if the front page had what you were looking for, it was like a needle in a haystack. Google's approach here is only revealing the portal functionality in response to a specific request for it. It won't kill them, and may even be a competitive advantage for them over any competitor search engine that has superior ranking algorithms.
- patrickaljord 13y agoThe philosophy of Google was not to send users to other websites in as little time as possible. It was to give users the correct answer in as little time as possible. If the answer can fit in a tiny utility tool on google.com itself, than that's faster for the user and it's actually a better experience.
- jaggederest 13y agoA script I use for this occasionally: #!/usr/bin/env ruby done = Time.now + ARGV[0].to_i while(true) do sleep(10) `say "Time's up!"` if Time.now > done end Or the alarm clock version: #!/usr/bin/env ruby require 'time' done = Time.parse(ARGV[0]) while(true) do sleep(10) `say "Time's up!"` if Time.now > done end
- bodyfour 13y agoMy alarm clock 15 years ago was: $ sleep 28800; while :; do cat /etc/termcap; done > /dev/audio These days /etc/termcap is disappearing from UNIX machines, but back then it was always available. I found it had just the right amount of structure to make a really annoying noise.
- paulnechifor 13y agoMy occasional alarm clock is: $ sleep 8h; mpg123 <something>/pandemonic_hyperblast.mp3 There is no way to fail to wake up with this song http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U5Den-CQ6jk http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U5Den-CQ6jk .
- dllthomas 13y agoHeh, I've certainly done the same, albeit with different songs...
- noptic 13y agoI always used my stereos build in timer and a death metal CD for the same effect :) But now my stereo and my CDs gather dust and I (and my neighbours) do not miss them.
- Iuz 13y agowaking up to anaal nathrakh everyday would probably put me into depression after two weeks.
- numair 13y agoIf you want to break it, search for "timer for 23 hours 59 minutes 60 seconds" ... 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?
- basicallydan 13y agoI'm guessing they decided they had to put a limit somewhere to ensure nothing broke, and decided arbitrarily on that.
- numair 13y agoWell, you can set the timer to 99 hours, 59 minutes, 59 seconds if you type in the values, so it doesn't seem to make sense that 23:59:60 would break it. I'm really curious as to why that happens.
- perucoder 13y agoit looks like some default limits are in place for this. Here's what I found: Max for seconds: 999 Max for minutes: 999 Max for hours: 23
- lutusp 13y ago> but maybe someone here can view source and figure out why they made that decision? Chances are it's a classic case of choosing a register size such that the time counter wraps around at 86,400 seconds, and to avoid this, they would have to explicitly include days -- and chose not to.
- oakaz 13y agoTry this: http://requirebin.com/embed?gist=6668018 http://requirebin.com/embed?gist=6668018
- san86 13y agoit's times like these where I wish they still had the "Beta" in their logo.. turns out "timer for 23 hours 99 minutes" breaks it too :P more testing google.. more testing
- martin-adams 13y agoInteresting side effect. There's this web site: http://www.online-stopwatch.com/timer/1hour/ http://www.online-stopwatch.com/timer/1hour/ which comes up top of the google search results for "timer for 1 hour" for me. Now there is absolutely no way they can compete with Google's own offering from an SEO perspective. 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.
- kingrolo 13y agoI wondered the same a while back when I'd often get old and out of date Google Code results showing up before the actual Github ones which I wanted.
- cloudwalking 13y agoNot the same feature. Those Google Code pages have better PageRank than the corresponding Github ones (older pages more links?). I don't think Google Code is given any preferential treatment in the results--if so, the UI would be presented differently.
- ok_craig 13y agoLesson: don't put to much stock into a product that can be replaced by a few lines of code on a search result page.
- skndr 13y agoIt's also probably a product that didn't take too many lines.
- joelthelion 13y agoDepends if it was built by a hacker or a company with product managers.
- gabemart 13y ago
- waterlion 13y agoTAKE OUT YOUR HEADPHONES (I'm shouting both because it's very important advice and because I'm now deaf)
- hobs 13y agoInterestingly I have no sound when the timer runs to zero, and no blip on the windows sound levels.
- OrwellianChild 13y agoAlso works with timer <time of day> E.g. timer 7am Original Reddit link that started it all: http://www.reddit.com/r/YouShouldKnow/comments/1j3pnv/ysk_use_google_as_a_stopwatch_with_its_set_timer/ http://www.reddit.com/r/YouShouldKnow/comments/1j3pnv/ysk_us...
- b4c0n 13y agoI built something for this exact purpose a few weeks ago. Surprisingly, I would put it's functionality in one of the top 10 things I use now. http://errk.se/remind_me_after/ http://errk.se/remind_me_after/
- drakaal 13y agoSeems 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't get any upvotes)
- k-mcgrady 13y agoDoesn't work for me in Safari 6.1 or latest Chrome. (Strangely worked on google.co.uk but doesn't work on .com)
- wjk 13y agoDoesnt work in my Nightly 27.0a1
- spuz 13y agoWhat am I supposed to be seeing? There is no special behaviour when I do this search.
- Lewton 13y agoYet again I am reminded that my google is not necessarily the same as 'your' google Just like how "define: something" doesn't show a dictionary definiton for me anymore, a functionality i used all the time. And now can't be sure whether was actually removed, or just removed for me!
- rorrr2 13y agoIt still works for me, I use it constantly.
- rfergie 13y agoHave you blocked javascript? All that kind of stuff disappeared for me when I installed noscript
- Amadou 13y agoHave you blocked javascript? I believe you have identified the cause. Switching javascript off and on between queries makes the define: operator stop working and then return to working. I block cookies and don't log into google in both cases. Silly, lazy, javascript-loving google, it used to work just fine without javascript and I don't see anything particularly special about how it works now that should require javascript either.
- annnnd 13y agoI don't think laziness has anything to do with it - they want you to have JS turned on. For instance Google Analytics, their powerful tracking tool, is crippled without it.
- hnriot 13y agoyou need javascript to use the modern web. If you turn it off, stop whining that you've lost functionality. You didn't lose anything, you turned it off.
- coldpie 13y ago
- MattBearman 13y agoI don't get anything special - Google Chrome on OSX
- ccozan 13y agoyou can combine this with the voice option from search, nice way to speak out loud and have this timer set. I've set up a custom shortcut for triggering voice search ( besides the Ctrl+Shift+.) and works like a charm.
- oakaz 13y agojust wrote something similar in 60 lines of JavaScript: http://requirebin.com/embed?gist=6668018 http://requirebin.com/embed?gist=6668018
- jpkeisala 13y agohttp://www.google.com/help/features.html http://www.google.com/help/features.html
- domness 13y agoFancy, however, I still prefer things like http://e.ggtimer.com/ http://e.ggtimer.com/ as it allows other functions such as a Pomodoro timer.
- miguelrochefort 13y agoYou can also use this bookmarklet: javascript:window.open("https://www.google.com/?gws_rd=cr#q="+((document.title.index...)?"":"2")+"5+minute+timer&safe=off",'_self'); https://www.google.com/?gws_rd=cr#q="+((document.title.index...
- billwashere 13y agoYay, I broke it :-) https://www.google.com.au/?q=timer+for+23+hours+59+minutes+60+seconds#q=timer+for+23+hours+59+minutes+60+seconds https://www.google.com.au/?q=timer+for+23+hours+59+minutes+6...
- Egidius 13y agoMaximum appears to be one day. Yet this works anyway: https://www.google.nl/?q=timer+for+23+hr+120+min+59+secs#q=timer+for+23+hr+120+min+59+secs https://www.google.nl/?q=timer+for+23+hr+120+min+59+secs#q=t...
- marcamillion 13y agoThis totally freaked me out. I clicked the link to be opened in a new tab - and continued what I was doing. I heard that beeping sound, and was completely baffled where it was coming from (didn't sound like it was coming from the speakers). 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. I felt like I was going crazy while I was doing it, but I just couldn't figure out the source of the sound. Thinking back, if a camera was in my office, that woulda been hella funny to watch.
- edelans 13y agoahah, I did exactly the same =)
- Kaizo 13y agoDid the same thing too, couldn't find the source at all since it didn't sound like it came from the computer. Thought my phone had gone nuts because it had no indication at all of any alarm...
- wahsd 13y agoTypical Google. Uninformative, trite, bland, uninspired user experience. That's the best auditory indicator they could find? The following may not be a popular statement here, but it seems Google is still overrun by engineers that are humanoid-challenged. With all due respect to engineers, engineers are not human readable.
- marcamillion 13y agoPretty sure painting with a broad brush is one of the quicker ways for your opinion to be ignored. #justsaying
- Semaphor 13y agoOne of the reasons I'm really happy about the feature to show what tab is playing sound in chrome. I was somewhat freaked out as well but only until I saw the movement in one of the tabs.
- epaga 13y agoFor those of us Europeans where this doesn't work: it works on Incognito Mode in Chrome.
- aestra 13y agoI'm in the United States and it doesn't work for me, not even in Incognito Mode in Chrome. I feel like I'm really missing out on the party.
- rane 13y agoNoticed that Alfred's default search URL for Google wouldn't work with the timer: http://www.google.com/search?q=set+timer+for+10+seconds http://www.google.com/search?q=set+timer+for+10+seconds It has to be https://www.google.com/#q=timer+for+10+seconds https://www.google.com/#q=timer+for+10+seconds so I made a custom search URL and can now use the timer through Alfred.
- adamc 13y agoNo, the first url worked for the timer fine for me.
- miguelrochefort 13y agoPomodoro Bookmarklet (powered by Google timer): 1. Create new bookmarklet 2. Name: Pomodoro 3. URL: javascript:window.open("https://www.google.com/?gws_rd=cr#q="+((document.title.indexOf("25")>-1 https://www.google.com/?gws_rd=cr#q="+((document.title.index...)?"":"2")+"5+minute+timer&safe=off",'_self'); 4. Save Click on the bookmarklet to toggle between "Work" and "Break" mode.
- potomak 13y agoOr you can use Tomatoes[1] to track also your working time. [1] http://tomato.es http://tomato.es
- evadne 13y agoI really miss per-application volume control (like in Windows).
- lectrick 13y agoHere's your poached egg timer... https://www.google.com/#q=timer+for+3+minutes+30+seconds https://www.google.com/#q=timer+for+3+minutes+30+seconds
- jsulak 13y agoCan't resist mentioning my small timer site from several years ago: http://clockster.net http://clockster.net. Takes RESTful urls, like http://clockster.net/3min30s http://clockster.net/3min30s.
- kylec 13y agoIt's not perfect though, this link will start a timer for 1 minute, not 24 hours and 1 minute: https://www.google.com/#q=timer+23+hours+61+minutes https://www.google.com/#q=timer+23+hours+61+minutes
- piyush_soni 13y agoHuh. Too bad they didn't test it even to this basic level.
- peachlover 13y agodoesn't work as expected in Bulgaria
- ozh 13y agoYet another case of Google inconsistencies.
- 27182818284 13y agoWorks better than timer / 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't explain a 3 minute difference easily with rounding errors, which has happened to me. )
- Antiquarian 13y agoNo fortnight support?
- sidcool 13y agoDoesn't work on Chrome for Android
- kip_ 13y agoAnnounced over 6 weeks ago at http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2013/08/google-timer.html http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2013/08/google-timer.html
- pax 13y agoI had to reset all my .google. 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
- bedhead 13y agoThis is what they'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.
- Zweihander 13y agoFor the Google QA person who is inevitably reading this: "timer for 23 hours and 59 minutes and 60 seconds"