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 in August 2013 I first noticed this feature and it temporarily stopped working in October 2013. Here is what it use to look like:

A search for set timer for 10 minutes or other variations would typically work but it currently does not.

Now, I just see search results and videos:

I spotted this at WebmasterWorld but it was first covered deccanherald.com based on a bunch of complaints on Twitter:

I mean, it is all over Twitter. Hopefully, it is a bug, I don’t understand why Google would remove the feature?

Danny Sullivan from Google will be checking on this:

Forum discussion at WebmasterWorld.