Yandex Browser settings: where to find them, what they are and how to change them. Advanced search of Yandex (and Google) using an installed script or in the interface How to set up a search engine in Yandex

Yandex is a huge web portal with extensive capabilities and various services. Its start page also hides some settings, which you will learn about later in the article.

Let's look at a few settings that you can apply to make the site easier to use.

Changing the Home Page Background

Instead of the classic white theme, Yandex provides a lot of pictures and photographs, divided into categories. Their use will help brighten up your stay on the site when obtaining the necessary information from the search engine.

To select a background, check out the article linked below, which describes the setup steps in detail. This way, a boring white theme will be transformed into a pleasant landscape or a funny picture.

Setting up home page widgets

On the Yandex start page there are several customizable widgets in the form of news, posters and other information. The TV program schedules of the channels you are interested in are also indicated manually, news can be read according to selected headings, links to visited website pages are divided into specific services that are marked by interests, and the weather is adjusted to the location or set manually. If you are not interested in anything offered, then you can simply delete them and enjoy a blank page with one search line.

After studying this article, you can easily edit Yandex widgets to suit your needs, which in the future will help you find the required information faster.

Location Settings

To see the weather that is relevant for your (or any other) region, current news or regional posters, Yandex automatically determines the location, adjusting the information of widgets and the search engine.

If you need to view data from a different geographic area, you can switch in the settings. An article that addresses the relevant issue will help you with this. Change your location and, without resorting to a search bar, control information about weather, news and more by specifying a specific city.

Setting up the Yandex start page does not require complex manipulations and takes a little time, but the result will please you every time you visit the site.

I’ll show you how to set up a search in Yandex, and I’ll also show you how to remove an advertising banner in Yandex.

We go to the main page of Yandex and click on the gear at the top right - these are the Yandex settings. Next, click on other settings.

The Yandex settings page opens, which contains:

City settings. By entering your city here, it will be taken into account in search results. For example, if you search for tire service, Yandex will offer you tire service in your city.
Setting the interface language
Setting up search results
Search tips
Setting up banner display on the main page
Taking into account the range of interests for displaying advertising

Let's start by customizing the search results.

Here you can configure:

Description of the found document and page in the search: standard (minimum description), extended (maximum description)
Open what is found in a new window or in the same window
How many documents to show on a page?
Whether or not to show graphic banners and pictures and site icons
Set the interface language
Configure interface type (standard or without AJAX)
Language of found documents
Set up page filtering (family search, moderate filter, no restrictions). Family search (set by default) will return only decent results (no porn or violence), a moderate filter (no porn), no restrictions (you will be shown all search results, even porn and those materials that are intended for persons 18+)
Query correction. If you entered incorrectly, for example, the word car m eh, then Yandex will fix it for the car

I selected Yandex in the search settings: extended description, 20 documents on one page, set page filtering to “no restrictions” and stopped recording my finds.

After making changes, click at the bottom of the page " save and return to search«.

Now let's move on to setting up the banner display on the main page.

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. But I wonder why there is no start page in the Yandex Browser itself?
The most universal and simplest way: type “www.ya.ru” in the address bar of your browser 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 default browser Internet Explorer, then the following algorithm helps you configure 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 the hotkey combination Alt +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:

In the upper right corner click "Settings" and choose "Browser Options" .
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.

"Start from Home Page"

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 of 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 the newly introduced 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 Page 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.

There is a shortcut key Alt + Home in Google Chrome that will help you quickly open the home page in the current browser tab.

Installation in Mozilla Firefox

When opening the Mozilla Firefox browser, you need to click on the icon
and 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/”.

Like Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox uses the hotkey combination Alt + Home to navigate to the home page.

Installation in Opera

Supporters of the 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 the necessary steps 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.

Hello, dear readers of the blog site. Today I want to continue the topic and move on to a description of my main tool, which I have been using for the second millennium.

Historically, I usually lead search in Yandex, and only then, if nothing worthy is found, I switch to Google (by the way, I recently wrote about what tools can be used and how they can be used).

Yandex, like Google, has its own (but very similar) query language, an advanced filter, as well as a family search. True, there is not such a rich set of filters in the search results itself (the page with search results), but there is a display of the filters that are present in this search results. I don’t know about you, but this thing really helps me to quickly find sites worthy of my attention, which I trust and whose answers previously satisfied me.

Is it convenient to search in Yandex?

In general, of course, it looks a little strange that I am writing about the main tool of the Yandex corporation (read,) after I had reviewed other (minor in relation to search) services:

This probably happened because the process of searching for information on the Internet has become for us as much a matter of course as breathing, walking, talking, etc. We do not focus on this, although if you approach this process wisely and carefully, you can significantly save your time, nerves and find something that would normally escape our attention.

So, let's go over the appearance of the search results page and the tools that are present there.

At the very top there is a list of other Yandex services and thematic searches that may interest you. However, results from searches for news, products, pictures, etc. are also mixed into the results of the general search results. For example, on the right, images are displayed just from the image search.

For some types of queries, Yandex (as well as Google) can give quite specific answers. The RuNet mirror calls this feature names a sorcerer. There are quite a lot of sorcerers (you can read and see about them on this page). Sometimes the sorcerer displays his block, similar to what I described in the article about, and sometimes he only gives a link, for example, to.

When requesting weather, immediately after entering the request form, you will see a weather wizard:

Settings and search options

If you have a slow Internet channel (for example, via a mobile phone), you can disable display of graphic banners and pictures located on the right (the “Settings” button in the upper right corner of the issue window).

By default, the search window settings also enable the display of site icons (favicons), which allow you to visually very quickly find among the results those sites that you are accustomed to trust. It will also be possible to increase the number of answers on the results page to 50, which, personally, is what I do, because in the top ten there is, as a rule, a lot of noise.

You can enable the display of separate statistics for each of the words contained in your query (displayed under the query entry form), but this will be an unnecessary overkill for the vast majority of users. Yes, you can sometimes see in Yandex search results dialogue prompts(see gray buttons in the previous screenshot under the request entry form), which allow you to quickly view the results for a refined request.

Search tips and what is important can be seen in the results (results)

Yes, I'm still talking about Yandex search suggestions didn't say. They now become personalized by default and take into account all the requests you previously typed and all other nuances of your personal life.

You can disable their personalization either on this page, or by clicking on the corresponding link (My queries) directly from the drop-down window with these very search tips.

You see, this settings page is different from the general search settings page. For some reason, Yandex has several such pages and the functionality of some of them overlaps. behold all possible search settings Runet mirrors will be available on the Tune.yandex.ru page.

Previously, I also chose to display a more detailed snippet taken from the site text (in the area "Document Description" option “Advanced”) or its description, so as not to once again go to those resources where the answer to my question most likely will not be found. Now, with a fairly fast Internet (), it is easier to go to the site than to read the snippet, which is generated by the RuNet mirror and is not always successful and informative.

Below the snippet there is a chain of links leading to the document found on this site (similar to breadcrumbs), which in some cases can stimulate additional clicks if they are attracted by the name of the category or section where this very page lives. Usually, these chains are taken from the bread crumbs available on the site.

The title of the document is taken from, although exceptions may sometimes be made. But this is rather important not for those who search in Yandex, but for those who want to be found ().

The user is more interested in, for example, a link "Copy", which allows you to view a copy of this document saved in the search engine cache. This may be necessary in the case or in the case, which will lead to the impossibility of switching to it from Yandex.

In addition, on the page with the copy, the keywords you typed will be highlighted with a bright yellow background, although this can be disabled by simply unchecking the “highlight query words” box. Using the arrows to the right and left of the query text, you can move between the found keywords and in the text.

But there is an even better way to see what is no longer there - this. A very interesting thing and even about thin or not very humor of Yandex itself can tell us (the source is located, and the selected fragment is visible only when selected, because it is written in white font on a white background, which is strictly prohibited by the rules of the search engines themselves).

You also probably noticed that, as a rule, in the search results of Yandex, and Google too, most often there is only one page from the site. Here. And if you are interested in this particular resource and all the information on the problem you are interested in found only on it, then the button will come to your aid "More".

Much less often you can see the inscription "Found via link", which will tell you that the words from your request were not found on this site, but there are links leading to this document, in the anchor of which such words were present. In a similar way, Bush Jr.’s website was successfully searched using a completely unflattering phrase that could not have been in the text of its pages. Guess how this happened?

The next area of the Yandex search settings allows you to select the language in which you would prefer to see answers, and it is also possible to disable the automatic correction of typos or errors you made in the request. In fact, there used to be such a trend as promoting queries with errors that are often repeated. But now Yandex itself corrects them and the feature no longer works.

Family Search, Live Stream and Related Searches

Here you can enable or, conversely, disable filtering of adult content (who needs what). By default, a moderate filter is used, when adult content will be shown only if you explicitly express your desire to see it in your request. If children use the computer, then it would be best to switch to Family search, in order to avoid all sorts of unpleasant incidents.

Well, if you certainly want to prevent the possibility of including adult content in search results, then you can use a special Yandex website for family search Family.yandex.ru, which looks exactly the same as the main page of the RuNet mirror, and which can be added as the default search and home page in the browsers you use.

They also have a special search for people, where you can search for a person both on all popular networks, and on some specific one of them.

Since we are talking about special Yandex sites with specific searches, how do you like this option? Dnez-search, when you click the “Find” button, the output for one of the currently typed queries will be shown:

It will also be very interesting to follow the link "Live " and see in the background exactly what queries and at what point on the planet are typed by those who are trying to search for something in Yandex.

In the last part of the search results settings, you can enable or disable Yandex tracking you and taking into account the received data when generating tips and search results.

Just like in Google, those who decide to search for something in Yandex will have a dossier created, which can be viewed by clicking on the “My Finds” link. That's it, the settings are done.

By the way, at the bottom of the search results window you can often find related queries, which were entered by the same users, trying to find an answer to the question that was tormenting them. Firstly, you can click on them to see a page with these search results, and secondly, webmasters can choose here for their future articles.

Unlike Google's rich sets of filters, in the Runet mirror we see only sort switches by relevance (compliance with the request text) or by date. Moreover, the latter method returns sites that are extremely far from what you wanted to see when entering your request.

Advanced search and Yandex query language

All filtering capabilities are concentrated exclusively in Yandex advanced search, which we will now quickly consider.

Thus, not only experts in the query language of this search engine (by the way, it is very similar to the Google query language), but also ordinary untrained users can search professionally in Yandex. First, you enter your query into the "I'm looking for" field, where you can use one or more operators to narrow your search. In Google, in this regard, advanced search is more functional.

Let's go over those now search query language operators that may actually be needed:

By default, Yandex places the logical OR operator between all query words. However, if you need one of the words in the search results would definitely be present, then put a + sign in front of it without a space on the right, but with a mandatory space on the left:

Website promotion + Moscow

Just like any other search engine, the RuNet mirror ignores words that appear too often in queries. These are the so-called safe words and most often these are prepositions, particles or pronouns. In order for these stop words to be taken into account by you, again it will be enough to put a + sign in front of them without a space:

Engine + for the site

You can also search using negation operator. For example, you need to find a review of some item, but the results show only online stores with this product. What should I do? Quite simple. It is enough to put in front of the words that you do not want to see in the results a double tilde ~~ (with a space between them and the word), or, at worst, a minus sign (without a space on the right, but with a space on the left):

Ipad 4 ~~ prices ~~ buy Ipad 4 - prices - buy

People often look for quotes, and to do this, it is possible to enclose this phrase in double quotes so that Yandex searches for these words in the same sequence.
If you forgot one or more words in any quote, proverb or saying, you can replace them with an asterisk sign or signs * separated from other words by spaces: “he rested in *”

By default, Yandex understands the morphology of the Russian language and searches not only for those word forms (cases and numbers) that you used in the request, but also for all others (smart type). True, this does not apply to parts of speech (if you specified a noun in the request, then adjectives derived from this word will not be searched). But this is no longer important.

Another thing is that in rare cases you may need prohibit Yandex from searching based on morphology. This can be done using exclamation mark placed without a space before the word that will need to be searched only in the form in which you used it (case, number).

"!website promotion"

Moreover, if the searched word is usually written with a capital letter (for example, surname), then an exclamation point before such a word will force the search engine to search only for words with a capital letter:

Lev! Nikolaevich

There is also the option of using a double exclamation mark, which forces the RuNet mirror to search by the dictionary form of this word, but I am far from linguistics and did not understand in what cases this could be useful.

Often a situation may arise that the search on a site that interests you is so stupid and stupid that it is better not to use it. In this case, you can, of course, use the Yandex advanced search (see screenshot just above) and specify the address of the desired site (or several sites separated by commas) to limit the search area.

But anyone can do this. It will look much more effective to use Site query language operator, which will look something like this:

Website promotion site:https://site

The advanced search also allows you to select document type, in which the phrase you need will be searched (regular Internet pages, PDF documents, Word files and something else). It’s convenient when the essay or thesis is found in exactly the format required to submit it - there is no need to make unnecessary gestures. However, the operator Mime It will be much cooler to use: website promotion mime:doc
It’s not entirely clear why this might be needed, but the RuNet mirror has had operators since ancient times & And && , which allow you to search for words separated by it in one sentence or in one document (in fact, && replaces the default logical OR operator with the AND operator)

Even more mysterious to me is the Yandex query language operator in the form slash "/", which allows you to set the interval (measured in the number of words) that will be maintained when searching for your query. The distance between adjacent words is assumed to be equal to one.

Promotion of /2 sites

This means that there cannot be more than one word between the words “promotion” and “site” in the documents found. There are also options for using a plus or minus sign in front of a number to determine the order of words. Yes, and you can also shove & (&&) in there, so that the poor user’s tower is completely blown away:

Promotion of &&/(-1 +2) sites

And as you can see from the last example, we can use parentheses to create super complex queries.
In advanced search, you can limit the scope quite subtly by specifying a specific time interval when these documents were created or updated. There are also query language operators that allow you to do the same thing - Date. It allows you to set both a specific date and intervals.

You will find examples of using all the mentioned and forgotten operators; perhaps this will help you search in Yandex more productively, quickly and with less nerve cells.

Good luck to you! See you soon on the pages of the blog site

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 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 the 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”.

Configure page filtering in one of the following ways:

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.

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