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Re: Google Timer is back

#81

Post by sentientslug »

djbusby wrote: post #80
lopatin wrote: post #50

Here's a timer for when they'll shut it down again https://www.google.com/search?q=timer+2+weeks

This show count down from 35h? Isn't a week longer than 35h?

It's odd. At first it shows is 336 hours, 0 mins, and 0 seconds and then it counts down to 35:59:59. Clearly a bug.

Re: Google Timer is back

#82

Post by awesomelvin »

djbusby wrote: post #80
lopatin wrote: post #50

Here's a timer for when they'll shut it down again https://www.google.com/search?q=timer+2+weeks

This show count down from 35h? Isn't a week longer than 35h?

Huh that's weird. It actually shows the correct 336h for a few milliseconds first and then counts back from 35h. I wonder what's happening internally - messing up a timer shouldn't be that easy normally, right?

Re: Google Timer is back

#84

Post by mlyle »

djbusby wrote: post #79
capableweb wrote: post #42

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I agree with you in general but not in this particular case. Best case scenario: you get a five minute timer running right away. Worst case scenario: you click the first link and get a five minute timer right away

First link would be ad-filled, SEO gamed bullshit.

Yup, something undesirable that will probably still work while Google Timer is "down."

Re: Google Timer is back

#85

Post by mlyle »

awesomelvin wrote: post #82
djbusby wrote: post #80

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This show count down from 35h? Isn't a week longer than 35h?

Huh that's weird. It actually shows the correct 336h for a few milliseconds first and then counts back from 35h. I wonder what's happening internally - messing up a timer shouldn't be that easy normally, right?

Looks like losing the hundreds digit of hours-- truncation.

Re: Google Timer is back

#86

Post by tonetheman »

shmoe wrote: post #66
TheMaskedCoder wrote: post #40

How are people supposed to use features like this if they get dropped and re-added from time to time? If I want a convenient timer, googling "set 5 minute timer" has no advantage if I don't know whether it will work or not. Inconsistency is an enemy of convenience.

Still bitter about reader over here, friend.

this this this!

Re: Google Timer is back

#87

Post by rfrey »

tonetheman wrote: post #73

who even knew they had a timer... Imagine being the person/team who worked on this knowing that most of the web will never see your work.

True, but someone at Google working on a public facing app, even if 99.99% of users never know it's there, will still have orders of magnitude more people using their software than most of us.

Re: Google Timer is back

#88

Post by Tepix »

anonu wrote: post #76
zatkin wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

When would you ever need a timer for 724 years?

Maybe to be reminded that were about 7% of the way through the life of the 10,000 year clock? https://www.10000yearclock.net/learnmore.html

Did they finish building it?

Re: Google Timer is back

#89

Post by sixstringtheory »

djbusby wrote: post #79
capableweb wrote: post #42

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I agree with you in general but not in this particular case. Best case scenario: you get a five minute timer running right away. Worst case scenario: you click the first link and get a five minute timer right away

First link would be ad-filled, SEO gamed bullshit.

Basically the first page of any Google search page is ads now.

If I want a quick 5 minute timer, it’s just a “Hey Siri” away. Navigating to Google to type a query is strictly inferior.

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