Screw those people for trying to monetize something you’re expecting to use for free. Your phone and computer have the capability to do timers. Why are you googling a timer with this attitude in the first place?

> Your [...] computer has the capability to do timers

Source? At least on macOS, i'm not aware of any built in timer or stopwatch.

  sleep 300; tput bel

or even

  timer() { sleep $1 ; i=$2; until [ $i -eq 0 ]; do tput bel; sleep 1; i=$((i-1)); done }
  timer 300 10

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.

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