I will then demonstrate how to create custom search engine shortcuts for both DuckDuckGo and Brave Search that will allow you to have easy access to their timers regardless of whether you use either DuckDuckGo or Brave Search as a primary search engine. What if we could create custom search engine short cuts for browsers to trigger the timer functionality?īelow, I will first explain how the timer feature works in DuckDuckGo and Brave Search.

Moreover, some people who do may want a quick way to trigger the timer. Most people do not use DuckDuckGo or Brave Search as their default search engine. After making this discovery, I had an idea. After a few tests, I found that both DuckDuckGo and Brave Search return interactive timers for certain “Timer” search queries (see DuckDuckGo Timer and Brave Search Timer). The prior existence of Google Timer was news to me, but it inspired me to research whether any other search engines or tools support the same sort of timer functionality that Google killed off. The feature allowed people to type a query such as “5 minute timer” into Google and receive an interactive timer above the search results.

Google recently eliminated its “Timer” function built into Google Search (note: see 9/1/22 update below on Google reviving its timer).

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