Relatively recently, a new development from the largest Russian search engine was presented - voice search Yandex.

This function allows you to enter search commands using your voice, that is, it works similarly to the long-implemented system from Google.

How to use this function on a computer, laptop, smartphone or tablet will be discussed in this material.

Advantages

Although this function While it does not have many fans and is not very widespread, some users have already appreciated its convenience and functionality. What are the advantages of Yandex voice search?

• This is a free module that does not require Yandex to be installed for normal operation. Browser. An extension from Yandex is enough, which can be installed in any browser;
• This module is distributed free of charge;
• It is well compatible with any browsers, and works properly even on old computers with low hardware resources;
• The module exists in several variations - for correct operation on a computer, laptop, modular devices, etc.;
• The module works quite correctly, voice commands are recognized clearly and correctly (although a lot depends on hardware, for example, on the quality of the microphone);
• Typing a search query by voice saves a significant amount of time, and is also convenient when your hands are busy (or in the cold).

From the above, we can conclude that this function is suitable for everyone who is used to using the voice input function for a search query, but prefers to use Yandex rather than Google.

Flaws

The most significant drawback of this service– its rather high dependence on microphone parameters. If you say your request too far from it or the sound quality is poor, the system will not be able to correctly recognize your request (while this happens quite often).

In this case, it will replace it with a phrase that is closest in sound to those that are often used from your computer. Or popular among users. After this incorrect recognition, the only way make a request - enter it manually from the keyboard.

Installation

The module discussed above is a Yandex extension. Line. After installing this extension on your computer, a field for entering a search query in Yandex will appear on the bottom panel of the desktop. It will be present not only while the browser is running, but also when working offline.

This line is convenient in itself for users who frequently use search queries. In addition, Yandex voice search is implemented only with its help.

Yandex. Line

How to install this extension. To do this, follow a simple algorithm:

• You can download it from official page developer, to do this you need to follow the link;
• Find the yellow Install button on the left side of the page and click on it;

<Рис. 2 Установка>

• Confirm the download (click the Save button in the pop-up window);

<Рис. 3 Скачивание>

• Wait for the download to finish and start the installation;
• Complete the installation by following the prompts of the Line Installer;
• After the installation is complete, it should appear at the bottom of the screen, in the panel with shortcuts and program buttons;
• If this does not happen, restart your computer.

After you installed the Yandex.Strova program, voice search automatically became available to you using this extension. Search, just like string, will work as if open browser, and when working with programs offline.

As mentioned above, you do not need Yandex Browser for the line to work properly. This module is not a browser extension and works completely isolated from it.

Usage

If you work on a personal PC, then for the module to work correctly you need to connect an external microphone. Connect your device and configure it through Device Manager. On laptops, sometimes you also need to make some adjustments to the microphone and allow it access to external applications.

How to use this application and the line as a whole? First of all, the line can be used as a standard search engine. That is, enter a search query into it from the keyboard.

After pressing the Enter button, the system will automatically open your default browser, and in it - the results of the search query in Yandex. Of course, this requires that the Internet be connected to the computer.

Voice search is multifunctional. It allows you to enter not only the usual search queries, but also search for applications, website addresses, etc. In order to ask any query, follow the algorithm:

• Find the button with the microphone icon on the right side, installed on the bottom panel of the Yandex search bar, and click on it;
• Say the key phrase;
• The module engine processes the voice command, after which it appears in the line (this happens very quickly);
• Next, press the Enter button and use the results in the same way as with a regular keyboard request.

Search algorithms through a string are no different from standard Yandex algorithms. In the same way, a list of results for a query is built. And all other search parameters are also completely characteristic of the Yandex system.

A convenient feature is its own automatically created bookmarks bar. It is formed from the most frequently visited sites. It can be seen by clicking on the search bar at the bottom of the window.

Also at the bottom of the window you can find your last search request through the Yandex.Stroke system. It also presents his most popular interpretations received from other users.

<Рис. 4. Закладки>

To get acquainted with the main functionality this application, you need to press the microphone button and say “Listen, Yandex.” After this, a window will open listing the main functionality of this application.

After this, for example, it becomes clear that the line interacts not only with the Internet, but also with the computer. For example, you can restart your computer, open Word or another program using this application.

<Рис. 5 Функционал>

Settings

The application does not require complex or lengthy settings. To call me settings, place the cursor on the search line and right-click on it. A small menu will open, the first item of which will be “Settings”.

• Here you can configure hotkeys for calling Yandex Strings. The default combination is CTRL+е, but you can set a more convenient option. To do this, enter it manually in the Search string field in the Hot Keys section;
• The Working with Files section helps you determine what exactly the system will do with the file you request via line. If you want the file itself to be launched, place a marker in the box opposite the inscription Open found file. If it is more convenient to see it in a folder, place a marker opposite another line;
• In the Opening web search results section, you can choose whether you want to see search results in a browser or in a special Yandex window. Strings;

Among the billions of pages of Internet content, only search engines can help out the network user and help him find this or that information. But only a few have at their disposal the knowledge of effective search in the major search engines Google and Yandex, because they all have their own secrets and features.

I already wrote about the Google search engine in a post. And today we’ll talk about the search engine Yandex/Yandex.

Yandex is a search engine that can, based on your request, find the most relevant web pages, news, pictures, encyclopedia articles or products in the Russian-language part of the Internet, or answer questions about the weather or cultural events.

All you have to do is type a question, just as you would ask a librarian or a know-it-all polymath. For example, where do crayfish spend the winter? or brightest star in the northern hemisphere

Yandex is just program, not a person. There is no need to endow him with omnipotence: they say, everything will be found, just tell him.

No matter how hard its developers try, no one on the planet has yet succeeded in creating artificial intelligence. Take this fact into account and do not try to ask Yandex “human questions”. This is of little use - he won’t understand.

Therefore, let's start with the most important subtleties of information search. The most important and basic thing here is the correct placement of the query in the search engine string. The request must clearly describe what you need to find in the depths of the Internet. For example, for one non-specific request “apple”, in the search engine results we notice the website of a political party, and explanations of the term “apple”, and various recipes, and many other pages (useful and not so useful). So in each of your requests you must clearly answer the question: what is the object about which you want to find information on the search results pages.

By the way, when you type a query, Yandex itself will offer you the most relevant options - search suggestions.

Now about the query: a very long query can either improve search accuracy or worsen it.

It is better to search in Yandex using phrases
consisting of two or three words.

Once you receive the results, wait to click immediately. Take a quick look at the suggested links. Rate: is this exactly what you are looking for? If not, then simply refine your request by adding new words.

If the topic of the query is specific, for example, regarding “the digestive system of the Spanish hedgehog”:o), then the query should consist of no more than 5-6 words (in most cases). When regarding your long (several words) query, the search engine produces nonsense, then you need to reduce the number of words in the query in order to expand the search area; in extreme cases, this is better than not finding anything at all. Perhaps in this option you will not get 100% what you wanted, but alternative approximate information is also good, for lack of anything better.

Advice: in case of very incorrect results for your request, the method of selecting synonyms and rephrasing your request helps. Sometimes, this significantly helps to find the necessary information, because search engines focus on the occurrence of keywords in the text of the page, and if you change the query, the results change accordingly.

By the way, there are a couple of secrets here.

Firstly,

Search engines have this interesting feature:
as "Advanced Search".

Advanced Yandex search is available at: http://yandex.ru/search/advanced

In the window of this most advanced search, you can slightly manipulate the results by setting certain parameters, thereby narrowing the search area.

As you can see, in the Yandex advanced search window, we can configure a specific region, word location, page language, page format, date added and much more. The Google search engine has a similar and intuitive advanced search interface.

Secondly, know:

Yandex generates the result taking into account
geographical region in which
the user is located.

In most cases it is really convenient. But what should we do, for example, if we want to order delivery of roses to a friend living in Ufa, but we ourselves are in Murmansk? This mode will interfere.

You can search in Yandex without taking into account the region using the advanced search form -

The form is convenient to use for a one-time operation. If you are making a series of requests, first set the region using the link in the upper right corner.

Thirdly, before searching in Yandex:

decide what exactly you want to find:
links to sites or an answer to a specific question.

With the first option, everything seems to be clear. We entered the words, got the result, then we began to methodically explore the proposed sites. Familiar, but long.

The second option is not so obvious. By the way, many (the same 85%) do not know about it.

Look, Yandex visits per month almost all sites Runet, even not particularly well-known and little-visited, and downloads all the pages somewhere to itself (on a dimensionless HDD). When you enter a query, then Yandex searches not on websites, but in its own pages that have already been downloaded, on that same dimensionless disk, or, as experts say, in the cache.

What does this mean? But the fact that

you can get an answer immediately search results,
quickly and without crawling sites.

For example, we want to know the year the Church of the Savior on Spilled Blood was built. Just enter the query “savior on blood” and the results will be:

"The Church of the Savior on Spilled Blood (architect A. Parland) was built by order of Alexander III and the decision of the Synod in 1907 on the site of the tragic death of Emperor Alexander II."

Got a response? Yes.

This is a simple example. For complex ones, knowledge of special commands and dexterity will be required. I’ll help with the first, the second will come with experience.

In order to effectively search the Internet, you need to know at least the basic principles of the functioning of search engines.

So, Yandex commands for searching:

1. If necessary search for the entire phrase, we put it in quotation marks.(By default, the search words can be anywhere on the page or absent altogether, and quotation marks force Yandex to search for the exact phrase.)

Example: "Red roses"

2. If the search words must be in the same sentence and it is allowed that there may be other words between them, then insert the ampersand symbol.

Example: Red Rose

3. If you need to withdraw pages that necessarily contain some word, then we add it to the request and put it in front of it plus sign

Example: "red roses" +Ufa +prices

4. The plus sign is convenient to use when you need to search taking into account a preposition; by default, the preposition can be ignored.

Example: "red roses" + in Ufa

5. If you put before a word space and two tildes, That Pages containing this word will be removed from the results.

Example: "red roses" +Ufa +prices ~~Russia ~~wholesale

6. If the word has synonyms or other words that are similar in meaning, then they can be listed through a vertical line, and we frame the entire listing in parentheses.

Example: "red roses" +Ufa +(prices | cost) ~~ (Russia | wholesale | wholesale)

In this example, the result will be pages containing “Ufa” and one of the words “price” or “cost”, while none of them should contain: “Russia”, “wholesale”, “wholesale”.

The entire list can be viewed in the Yandex help or in the memo; a link to it is in the advanced search form.

What is taking into account morphology when searching?

I'll show you with an example...

In Russian, words can have different forms (cases, singular and plural etc.) Whatever form the word appears in the text of the page (even different from the form of the word in the request), Yandex will find it. For example, if the query is “go”, then the search result will find documents containing the words “go”, “is going”, “was walking”, “was walking”, etc. The request “window” will return information containing the word “window”, and the request “revoked” will return documents containing the word “revoked”.

Please note that when selecting word forms for search, Yandex distinguishes between parts of speech. For example, if you search for “computer” (noun), pages with the words “computer” or “computers” will be found, but not “computer” (adjective).

Basic search query techniques.

Search. The first button allows you to select the main search engine for the Yandex browser, it can be “Yandex”, “Google”, “Mail.ru” or “Wikipedia” (or others, in different browsers various search engines are given). The first three are standard general search engines, but Wikipedia is a reference search engine that searches not for sites, but for information and descriptions. That is, by entering into the “smart line” not the site address, but what you want to find, the search will be carried out exactly in the selected search system. Let's say that by selecting Wikipedia, a search will take place on Wikipedia.

Second button— setting up search engines. Here you can set the selection value if you use different search engines. That is, if your main search engine is Yandex, but you need to search on Google, then you don’t need to open Google page. It is enough to set the value of the search engine, well, let it be “g” (for brevity) and after that, if you enter “g” in the smart line and put a space, then the search will automatically be carried out in the Google search engine (but if after the letter “g” there is no space , then the search is carried out in the default search engine).

To set the search engine value, click on the “search engine settings” button, and then select the desired search engine. In the left section there is the name of the search engine, that is, for your perception, you can change it at your discretion, as long as it is convenient and understandable. The second section of the line is the search engine value, what was described above. If you select the search engine Google, and set the value to “Google”, then by entering the word “Google” into the smart line, followed by a space, the search will automatically be performed in Google search. But if you enter “Google”, the search will not occur in Google system(if it is not installed by default).

The third section contains the address where the search request is sent; it is better not to change anything there. Next to the address there is a “Use as default” button, that is, set the search engine through which the search will be carried out in the smart line (the same as the first button in this section). On the right is a cross to delete the search engine if you never intend to use it. After making changes, you must click the “done” button, otherwise the changes will not be saved.

To add another search engine (a list of popular search engines is listed on this site in the “search engines” section), you can go to the search engine page, for example youtube.com, and right-click in the search field. In the menu that appears, select “add as search engine...”.

In the window that appears, change or leave the name “youtube.com”, keyword must be changed so that a green checkmark icon appears on the right. I changed it to “YouTube”, you can enter both Russian and Latin letters and numbers. You cannot change anything in the “link” field! And press the “ok” button.

Now the search engine has been added to your search engines, this can be seen in the settings - the “search engine settings” button.

The added search engine can also be set as the default by hovering the mouse over the required system and clicking the “use as default” button on the right. After adding a new search engine, you can immediately check its operation, the principle is the same - enter the keyword in the smart line, in my case “YouTube”,

Every user who searches for information on the Internet uses the browser's address bar. It would seem that this is a banal and familiar tool that does not need to be considered separately. But that's not true. You need to know how to work with this tool. Now we will learn how to do this.

You can also download the modern browser UC Browser to view Internet pages from your computer and phone. It also has an address bar and some interesting features. It is gradually developing, and now it can compete with the usual Firefox, Chrome and Opera. Download and try.

Terminology

To view web pages, use special programs- browsers. In each of them, at the top of the window, there is a text field in which the address of the desired website (url) is typed from the keyboard. When a website is open, address bar its full address is displayed.

URL is a unique address of a resource on the Internet.

Example of an address bar in Mozilla browser Firefox

Essential elements

The following address bar elements are present in all popular browsers.

1. Refresh button - refreshes the current page
2. Previous/Next Page Buttons- navigation elements that allow you to return to earlier open page, or go to the one you left (within the current tab)
3. List of most visited pages - allows you to quickly jump to a site page that has been viewed frequently

Where is the address bar

Let's look at this using the example of the three most popular browsers - firefox, opera, chrome and internet explorer.

Mozilla Firefox

Address bar in the Mizila Firefox browser.

Google Chrome

This is what it looks like in Google's browser.

Opera

The appearance is presented as follows.

Internet Explorer

And finally the last browser.

Setting up search services

For a long time now, developers have begun to implement search services in the browser. This simplified the search for information - the search bar is located next to the address bar, and allows you to type queries without going to the search engine.

note . You can type search queries directly into the address bar. In this case, the search will be performed through the default search engine. If you type a query in the additional search bar in your browser, you will be asked to select through which search engine or service you want to find information.

Let's look at this mechanism using Mozilla Firefox as an example.

The figure below shows the process of entering search queries into the address bar window and into the search window.

As you can see, we have typed "search term" directly into the address bar. If we press the "Enter" button we will get the result. Our request will be processed through the Yandex search engine, and we will be redirected to the search results page. This will happen because the Yandex search service is selected by default in our browser. You can edit this setting. It's done like this.

In the search bar window, click on the arrow next to the magnifying glass icon (appears when you hover over the mouse pointer icon), and in the menu that opens, select " Change search settings ".

Here, select the search engine or service that will be used as the default.

If you type a search query not in the address bar, but in the search block, you will be asked to select the search engine or service that you want to use - just select the one you need from the list. That makes all the difference.

Through the browser there is an active search for useful and interesting information across all corners of the network according to the user’s interests. The search engine plays a key role in the search; its robots crawl all the sites on the network and create images of pages that are then shown in the search results. The Yandex browser address bar helps you interact with the search engine; it is so important that we devoted the entire article to the questions: where is it located, how to work with it, and also added keys for the console. The search bar is much more functional than most users imagine, and working with it is a mandatory part of a gentleman's kit for a confident user.

“Smart Line” is a unique development in the browser from Yandex, which simultaneously includes several functions:

• Address bar to go to the site by URL;
• A search string designed to search for information on the Internet. It is easily customizable for searching on various resources and in various search engines.

Using the “smart line” you can easily go to any site by address, name, or use a search by phrase. There are also several additional features: search within a specific site, finding by name or individual words in the site name, changing basic settings search using special characters.

Where is the smart line in the Yandex browser?

IN Yandex browser The “smart line” acts as an address and search bar at the same time, so we are talking about the same line. It is not difficult to find, since it is located almost the entire width of the browser window.

How to find the address bar of the Yandex browser by landmarks:

The search bar is always at the top of the browser, even when you set the tab bar to the bottom.

How to replace the search engine?

To replace the search engine, there is a special setting in the browser. To install a search engine from the standard set, we recommend using the instructions:

It is possible to install an alternative system by clicking on “Search Settings” in the same section. “Other search engines” are displayed here. If this list is not enough, enter its name in the “Add system” line, the site address in the “Key” field, and the link to the search page in the “Link with parameter %s” field, where %s is entered instead of a query, for example, https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=%s.

Hiding the Yandex browser address bar

It is not possible to completely remove the address bar in the Yandex browser, since it is an important part of the browser. We can temporarily hide it at the top of the page by making the line drop-down. To remove the search bar for a short time, press F11. In full screen mode, all extraneous elements disappear. Exiting the mode is easy - you just need to press the same button.

Why doesn't the search bar in the browser work?

The address bar of the Yandex browser sometimes does not respond (click), which is something users often complain about. It may also not show search results or redirect to an error page. The causes of such failures are system and human errors:

If the “smart line” does not respond to user actions, most likely the Internet has simply disappeared. After performing the “Problem Diagnosis” and checking the network access, access should resume. When the browser is completely unresponsive to user actions, it needs to be restarted or reinstalled, and in extreme cases, you will have to perform a system rollback.

Command line keys for launching Yandex browser

Yandex browser can be launched via the command line. From the console it is easier to launch the browser with certain settings: set to default, turn off security, copy user files, etc.

Let's look at a few useful options command line in Yandex browser:

• --make-default-browser

  – makes the Yandex web browser the default browser. The program does not start;

• --no-sandbox

  – turns off the security environment for processes;

• --user-data-dir

  – copies user files. It looks like the entry —user-data-dir=»D:\, where D:\ is the path where the files will be saved. Closing parentheses are not needed on the line;

• --new-window
• --screenshot

  – take a screenshot of the loading page.

How to use keys in the console:

There are too many keys for launching Yandex browser from the command line to describe them all. We can find the entire list on the developer’s website.

Now we have learned what it is, where it is, how to use it and why the “smart line” does not work in the Yandex browser. With the above knowledge, searching for information on the Internet will become much more effective.