When anything resembling two numbers separated by a colon that appears anywhere in the search query, a timer is triggered.
A triggering bit of text could be a subset of a larger query as well so eg;blah4:3bleh
will work too.
I originally stumbled across this because I went to query an IP address but I mistyped 8384
as a port number, instead entering 83884
.
The default behavior for most browsers is to navigate an IP address if the port is valid otherwise it will perform a search for that text which is annoying, because it makes fixing the URL require more steps.
![](https://kagifeedback.org/assets/files/2025-02-04/1738711993-775413-cleanshot-2025-02-05-at-122502.png)
None of the queries I've triggered it with have a clear user intent that they want a timer so perhaps they shouldn't do this?
To some extent, this does make sense if you want to query 4:30
and get a timer for 4 minutes 30 seconds but perhaps it should not trigger if those numbers immediately have text preceding?
![](https://kagifeedback.org/assets/files/2025-02-04/1738711903-131924-cleanshot-2025-02-05-at-123118.png)