There is no central repository of all search features and if the timer is tested, it is likely forced to trigger with debug flags.
For timer to disappear like this would most likely be caused by a ranking change which prevents it from appearing as the top result (the only position it can render itself in).
It also would explain why the DDG one remains, as they don't meet the definition of a gatekeeper.
To what end? Needlessly pissing off lawmakers isn’t a smart strategy.
They know the law was intended to address their abusive pricing arrangements, but they decided, of course, to thumb their nose at it and add a new "platform fee" instead.
Does Google really not have some sort of "Always rank this result first" flag?
huh so I suppose it’s possible there are ghost features no one maintains but might still work?
That said we could argue for days about what a feature is.
That is, in a large org like google (or msft, or...), how much stuff is there that no current employees are aware of?
I work at a relatively small company for a number of years, and it's definitely been a challenge to maintain knowledge of feature creep that has occurred, let alone anything more in depth like what the features were _supposed_ to do.