The start page in a browser is the tab, page or site on the Internet that opens first when you open your browser each time you launch it, or when you press the Home key.

Do you have a desire or need to work specifically with the Yandex search engine? The start page, which can be installed by a user of absolutely any level, will always open first when loading the browser program.

To achieve this, you can use one of the methods below. It is quite easy to install and assign Yandex as the starting page, and in this article we will look in detail at the options on how to do this.

It all depends on what browser you use, because the applications and settings algorithms for each program are different. I just wonder why in the Yandex Browser itself home page absolutely not?

The most universal and simplest way: dial in address bar your browser “www.ya.ru” and wait for the web resource to load. In the upper left corner you can see the inscription “Make starting”.

Click on it and you're done. From this moment you begin your work with the site “www.yandex.ru” or, more simply, with the Yandex search engine.

Installation using a free utility

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Yandex itself provides us with a convenient and comfortable way to configure home pages in browsers using automatic utilities specially created for this.

When the download is complete, you should install a browser manager on your computer or laptop, and this smart utility will be able to monitor changes in the home page itself, even despite the actions of various malware.

The manager will be able to save you from such unpleasant surprises as Webalta and calculate so that only Yandex always remains as the starting point in your browser. But a manager cannot always overcome all obstacles. More on this later in the article.

The most common browsers used today are:

If you are a supporter of the classic browser by default Internet Explorer, then the following algorithm helps you set up the Yandex start page.

Open Internet Explorer and click the icon "Settings"
in the upper right corner, which opens the window "Service" .

You can also call up this menu by simultaneously pressing a combination of hot keys. Alt keys+X.

Select from the drop-down menu "Browser Options" , or it can also be called "Browser Option" . Next, open the tab "Are common" .

In operating systems such as Windows 8 and Windows 8.1, Internet Explorer is a built-in program.

But the installation is carried out in the same way as other versions of this browser for almost 20 years.

To make Yandex the start page in Internet Explorer 10 and Internet Explorer 11, you should complete the following steps:

1. In the upper right corner click "Settings" and choose "Browser Options" .
2. Enter links to home page addresses in the field. If, in addition to Yandex, other links are needed, then here we enter the addresses for them. There should be only one address on each line.
choose "Start from Home Page" .
3. We confirm the actions by clicking on the button “ OK" .

After completing all the steps, our Internet Explorer will display Yandex as the first page when loading.

Installation in Microsoft Edge

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For fans Microsoft Edge there is the following algorithm. To open settings in Microsoft Edge, click on the icon

The function will be displayed at the bottom of the page "View additional options" and enable the add-on "Show home page button" .

We enter the address we need “https://www.yandex.ru” into the text field in the same way as in the case of Internet Explorer.

We confirm our actions by pressing a button "Save" . When you restart the browser, Yandex will become new home page.

Installation in Google Chrome

Google Chrome, the most popular browser according to independent surveys on the Internet, offers us the following method. In the browser we look for the icon "Settings"
and open it.

Finding the button « Appearance» . Enable the add-on "Show Home Button" .

In the query line "Enter web address" enter the required link: “https://www.yandex.ru/”. This completes the setup, because all user actions are immediately synchronized with your profile in the browser.

After completing all the manipulations when you restart Google Chrome, Yandex will be displayed when you press the button "Home" (image of a house).

But if you want Yandex to load completely automatically, then you should use a different installation option. To change you will need:

1 In the Google Chrome menu in the upper right corner, call the command "Settings" .

2 Looking for an item "Initial group" , where we put a tick (if it is not checked) "Next Pages" .

4 If you are a fan of Yandex, then here you can configure it as the “default” search engine. In chapter "Search" indicate the search engine Yandex.

5 Close settings. Confirm your actions by pressing a button "OK" no need, everything syncs instantly in this browser.

If you have configured your browser as described above, then when you turn on Google Chrome, the pages installed in the initial group (in our case, Yandex) will always open. "Settings" - "Basic" .

There we are looking for the line "When Firefox starts" and set the value "Show home page" . Accordingly, in the line "Homepage" enter the link “https://www.yandex.ru/”.

Just like in Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox You can go to the home page using the hotkey combination Alt + Home.

Installation in Opera

Supporters Opera browser can use the following method: use the hotkey combination Alt + P to call up the menu.

Switch to "Browser" to section "At startup" . Next click on the link "Set Pages" and in the field "Add new page» enter the path “https://www.yandex.ru/”.

After all operations, confirm the actions by pressing the button "OK" and set the switch to position "Open home page" .

That's all necessary actions in order to achieve our goal - to make Yandex Search the home page in the Opera browser.

After following all the instructions, the browser will automatically open the search engine when launched.

Convenient enough on its own. However, it has extensive capabilities for customizing the interface, which we will discuss in this article.

Many Internet users (and more specifically, the Runet segment) do not even realize that the search page in Yandex can be customized for themselves. But this allows you to display the necessary information, delete unnecessary information, and also arrange it in a way that is convenient for you! Let's take a closer look at this possibility.

Yandex is configured on the tune.yandex.ru page installed on the computer. This site belongs entirely to the service itself.

Let's start from the very top: Setting up the city. By clicking on the link, we set the city to "Default". You can also check the “Do not specify my location” checkbox so that the site no longer asks if you are in a particular city.

“Setting the interface language” - everything is also clear. There is only one point here, select the language and return.

"Setting up search results" - sets the default display of search results. Automatically the most optimal settings, but you can substitute them for yourself.

• Document description: either standard or expanded with additional information;
• Open what you found - in the search window or in a new window;
• Documents per page - how many query results will be returned: 10 (default), 20, 30 or 50;
• Graphics - whether it is necessary to display graphic banners and pictures or website icons. Necessary to save traffic;
• Interface language - choose between Russian, Ukrainian, Kazakh, Belarusian and Tatar;
• Interface - standard or without AJAX scripts;
• The language of the documents found is either any or selectively - Russian, English, French, German, Ukrainian, Belarusian, Tatar or Kazakh;
• Page filtering - family search is the most strict filter, not displaying any “forbidden” pages for children, moderate filter - standard, without restrictions - the results are not filtered at all;
• Query correction - automatically, or with a hint of options;
• Search results - whether to take into account search history in Yandex;
• Search suggestions - whether or not to show queries or favorite sites in the suggestions;
• Whether or not to record the history of the "My Finds" service.

That's sorted out. Let's go back.

Now - settings for the "My Finds" service, which is responsible for storing requests to Yandex. Here you can either enable history recording or stop recording.

In the "Search Suggestions" menu, you can check "Search Suggestions", "My Queries in Search Suggestions", clear your query history, and also enable "Favorite Sites in Suggestions".

In the "Display banner on" menu home page"You can turn on or off the advertising banner on the main page. Advertising is usually generated from search queries, which means it can be useful. Off by default.

Now Yandex search has become more personalized, and therefore more convenient! Enjoy it for your health!

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 regarding effective search in major search engines. Google systems and Yandex, because everywhere has its 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, artificial intelligence So far no one on the planet has succeeded in creating it. 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 statement of the query in the line search engine. 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 entry keywords in the text of the page, and if you change the request, then the output changes 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.

Customize Yandex for yourself to increase the efficiency of searching for information on the Internet and make working with found documents more comfortable:

If you are logged into your Yandex account, then the settings are linked to yours. Also, information about the settings is saved on your computer (in a file) and is valid until you change it.

The settings are tied to a specific browser - in another browser, Yandex search will have to be configured again. You will also have to update your settings if you delete all cookies (for example, when you reinstall your browser or operating system).

If several users work with the computer or several browsers are installed on it, then the settings can be made separately for each user and browser.

Don't be afraid to experiment. If desired, you can always return to the default settings (button Set Defaults On the page ).

How to make your search query more specific

You can also use the query language directly when typing a query in the search bar.

How to set up query fixing

If a typo was made when typing a request or the wrong keyboard layout was selected, Yandex will detect this. And you can specify whether your search query should be automatically corrected or whether a hint is sufficient. To do this, select the required value on the page (Settings link at the bottom of the search results page).

How to set up a search results page

Determine what the search results page will look like:

How many documents should be placed on one search page?

Whether to display favicons and graphics.

To do this, select the necessary parameters on the page (Settings link at the bottom of the search results page).

These settings affect the traffic consumed and the loading speed of the search results page.

How to set the interface language

You can set the language in which the search results page will be presented.

Note. This setting does not affect the language of found documents.

You can select the interface language on one of the following pages:

Regardless of where exactly the language was set (in the search results settings or in general settings), the selected value will be set as the interface language for all Yandex services.

How to exclude “adult” pages from search results

Select the degree to which search results are cleared of documents containing profanity and adult content:

moderate filter - “Adult” sites are excluded from the search results if the request is not explicitly aimed at searching for such resources (the mode is enabled by default);

family search - “Adult” content is completely excluded from the search results (even if the request is clearly aimed at finding such resources), as well as sites containing obscene language;

no limits - the search results contain all documents found for the request, including Internet resources “for adults”.

Set up page filtering using one of the following: following methods:

Select the required value on the page (Settings link at the bottom of the search results page).

How to set up personal search

Specify whether Yandex should use your history of searches and transitions to sites from search results. This setting allows you to take your interests into account when generating suggestions and search results pages.

To set up a personalized search, select the options you want on one of the following pages:

How to use keyboard shortcuts on the search results page

You can use hotkeys to navigate the search results page. For example, switch between search bar and found documents, open links, go to the next or previous pages with search results.

To enable this option, select enable keyboard control on the page (Settings link at the bottom of the search results page).

A complete list of hotkeys is presented in the help. Keyboard control(press the ? key to open help).