We checked: it’s really impossible to set a timer with a Google search. This feature was almost ten years old and came out in 2013.
Google has yet to officially confirm the removal of this feature, so it’s entirely possible that it was accidentally gone due to a bug. On July 21, a company spokesperson said they would look into the matter and said almost a week later on July 27 that the team was “still checking”.
Source: Ferra
