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 ...

You can easily add a timer to your Google Slides presentations, to help you keep track of how long you're taking during a presentation. However, Google Slides has no built in timer function, which ...

We’re accustomed to setting alarms on phones, and do so even when we work on laptops or desktops. One of the several things Google can be used for is to set timers through its homepage itself. Be it ...

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The Google countdown timer and stopwatch feature seem to have stopped working. It seemed the Google stopwatch stopped ticking on July 18th. This feature first came up in Google about a decade ago. So ...

Parth is a technology analyst and writer specializing in the comprehensive review and feature exploration of the Android ecosystem. His work is distinguished by its meticulous focus on flagship ...