Login to Yandex search engine. Yandex - setting up the main page, registration and login, as well as the history of the company's formation. We indicate our location if Yandex has not determined it

Hello, dear readers of the blog site. Today I want to talk about the most successful Internet company on the RuNet.

If you think about it, more than half of the users come to my blog from this, and the lion’s share of mine comes from income from displaying YAN advertising units (through Profit Partner).

For webmasters, probably, first of all, Yandex is a search engine that occupies a leading position in the RuNet (it recently even absorbed ). Moreover, modern realities are such that it would be extremely unwise to not take into account the features of this search engine when optimizing a site, since it is it that aggregates the lion’s share of commercial queries. If you don’t receive targeted visitors from it, it’s not a fact that you will be able to get them from . they simply may not be there.

Yandex main page, themes and settings

But at the same time, Yandex has long outgrown the short pants of a pure search engine and has become for many users the place from which they begin their journey on the Internet - a multiportal. Millions of users now use its image search, Mail, and dozens of other services. The main competitor Google also has all this, but nevertheless, the majority of the audience in our network segment votes for the domestic manufacturer.

Let's start looking at the portal from its main page. Many specialists worked on its creation and layout, and on the initial page you will find almost everything you might need at first. Only later, having become a little more comfortable and having decided which services you will need in the first place, you will be able to completely rebuild it to suit your taste and needs.

We'll talk about registration, receiving a mailbox, and more below in the text. Now let us note that much of what most users may need can already be found on the main page. I have highlighted in orange the services that I personally use from time to time.

Also on the main page, when you scroll through it, you will find a list of Internet materials that may be of interest to you. Yandex knows your preferences and tries to show only the most interesting things to you in this feed. Judge for yourself how well he succeeds:

However, all people are different and their interests also differ. Therefore, at the very top of the main page you can always see a drop-down list called "Personal settings"(gear icon in the upper right area of ​​the screen). By clicking on it, you can choose one of four options:

Let's go to the first tab Set up Yandex. Here we will be given the opportunity to delete, configure, drag and drop existing widgets on the main page, and if desired, add new ones:

When saving the changes, deletions or rearrangements of blocks on the main page (the “Save” button), you need to understand that if you have not registered on Yandex.ru, then it will only be linked to the browser from which you made these settings (remembered in cookies) . In another browser, you will see the default home page.

As you can see, not only the main page settings are concentrated here, but also global and fundamental things. Let's look at them in more detail (it is clear that it would be better to save them specifically for your account):

Registration and receipt of Yandex Passport

You have two options to work with this portal. You can register with Yandex and receive a free mailbox with good spam cutting as a gift, or you can forget about registration and just work with the main page and other services that allow you to do this without authorization.

Probably, the first option (with registration) would be preferable, because in this way you can use the system’s potential to the maximum.

After clicking on it, you will be able to download a detailed manual with screenshots that will help you set up the start page specifically for the browser in which you have now opened this very instruction. Or, as in the case of Internet Explorer, you will be offered to simply click on a button for this thankless task.

Yandex is the search engine everyone needs

It is possible that Yandex is now used to a greater extent by users to satisfy their everyday needs and that is why it is primarily of interest to SEO companies involved in the promotion of commercial sites. But the share of those users who enter information queries in this search engine is still huge, although already comparable to Google’s share (judging by the statistics of my project).

It is clear that this is not accurate statistics, because in addition to the Ru domain zone, there are other domain zones, and not everyone has a LiveInternet counter installed. However, this sample can still be considered representative and it follows from it that Yandex is quite confidently leading in the Russian-language segment of the Internet.

He bit off more than half of the bagel, which is quite a lot, considering the multimillion-dollar audience of the RuNet. It is clear that Yandex’s share in global search is small (from one to two percent) and Google already categorically reigns there. And in RuNet, if we consider the audience of users entering information queries (who do not need to buy something), the shares of Yandex and Google will be almost the same. I judge this by analyzing the statistics of my blog site:

But this, of course, is not a representative sample at all, but rather my own IMHO. By the way, if you analyze the positions of my site for various popular search queries (for example, you can look at its visibility in), you will notice that these two giants often have completely different assessments of the same web pages.

Over the next few years (until 1996), active work was carried out to improve search algorithms and take into account the morphology of the language. During this time, several software products were released (Academic edition of the classics on CD ROM, Bible computer reference book), where all these developments were used, but, as you yourself understand, all this did not make it possible to realize the full potential of search algorithms and did not allow us to seriously earn money. There was practically no Internet in RuNet at that time.

By the way, it was during this period that the name for the developed search technology was invented, namely Yandex, which means “Language Index”. Although there are still many interpretations of the origin of the brand, this does not change the essence. The development team had a desire and conviction that selling the search technology itself would be much more profitable than selling products built on it.

In 1996, at the Netcom exhibition, the company, which at that time was a department of the Arcadia company, offered its first products for site search (Yandex.Site) and search by CD content (Ya.CD). Well, as well as a separate product that implements Ya.Lib search technology. In the same year, the company went online and, using the Ya.Dict product, made it possible to make queries in Russian to the AltaVista search engine, which was popular in the bourgeoisie at that time ( Google didn't exist yet).

But all this was not what would allow the company to really develop in all its glory. It lacked its own index of all RuNet sites. Well, the employees of the company (at that time a department of the Arcadia company) strained themselves and created a search robot, which quickly crawled all the five thousand sites available in the RuNet (at that time) and collected an index text file weighing only four gigabytes.

All. In 1997, at the Softool exhibition, it was announced new website yandex.ru(a project codenamed Yandex-Web), which was launched on September 23.

By the way, the first version of the design for it was drawn by Artemy Lebedev, now known to all of you:

At first, to work with the search engine, it was necessary to enter queries formulated in a special way (using logical operators), but after a few months they got rid of this and the search engine could be addressed as a simple interlocutor. In the same year, a forum was opened to communicate with visitors and solve their problems, which existed until 2008.

Yandex was already at that time successfully combating duplicate content in different or slightly different content, and identical documents were removed from the search results. In addition, they were used to allow links to the most relevant (meeting the user's request) documents to be placed at the top of the search results.

It turns out that the development of the Internet in RuNet coincided very well with the fact that the Yandex company had previously been working seriously and for quite a long time on the problems of searching in Russian using huge text arrays.

This probably played a decisive role in the further dizzying rise - after all, all he had to do was transfer his developments to the web and pay attention to the development of related services and thinking through ways to extract income from all this. The main thing was be at the right time and in the right place. Segalovich and Volazh succeeded, for which I congratulate them - well done.

But, as it were, the story does not end there, but, on the contrary, is just beginning. Next year, 1998, work is underway to improve the search engine, new functionality appears for users (search in what was found, find similar documents, etc.), and the design of the main page also undergoes a slight change (getting these screenshots turned out to be quite simple, because There is such a service as, which performs the function of a time machine):

In 1999, the Internet began to gain popularity by leaps and bounds in the Russian-speaking segment of the network, and in connection with this, the number of documents indexed by Yandex significantly increased, which it succeeded by launching a new robot that scans Runet sites. In the same year, a new project was launched, which lasted until 2012.

What’s interesting is that starting this year, Yandex seriously took up spam filtering, began to take into account the contents of Alt tags for images, and in addition to the text of the document itself, when ranking, it began to consider those leading to it from other sites on the network (the birth of full-fledged link ranking). Well, the design of its main page has changed significantly:

Development of a new search engine and related services

In 2000, a number of events occurred that predetermined the further success of Yandex.ru. If you look at the previous three screenshots of its homepage design, you'll notice the CompTek logo. This is quite logical, because the development team at that time was part of the programming department of this company. But in 2000, this department was separated back into a separate company, but which was no longer called “Arcadia”, but Yandex.

By the way, at this time they had not yet worked out a scheme for generating income and they were forced to attract an investor. The ru-Net Holdings corporation invested about five million dollars in the search engine, for which it received a third of the assets of the Yandex company. In general, it turned out to be a very profitable deal, because now the number one search engine in RuNet is already worth hundreds of millions of dollars.

In the same year, the famous one appeared, and was also introduced, with the help of which the ranking of sites in this directory was carried out (see the money we are already familiar with in the given screenshot).

Moreover, Tietz was assigned to all indexed resources (regardless of their location or not in the directory) and, unlike the thematic index, was assigned to the entire site, and not to its individual pages. It is measured in digital values ​​from 0 to infinity and is a linear value, and Page rank has only eleven gradations from 0 to 10 and is a logarithmic value.

In addition, in 2000, Yandex was already being formed as a multiportal, because it was at this time that services such as Mail, News, Bookmarks, Postcards appeared, well, and a bare search bar at the address ya.ru(Google’s home page looks the same - complete asceticism). A number of services have also appeared that will later become the Market. Well, even before the heap, in 2000, it first saw the light of day, which users could install as an add-on for their browser (now it has been renamed Elements).

The main achievement of the company in 2001 can be considered that it became the most visited site in the RuNet, the index base grew to the size of one terabyte, and an image search service appeared.

Well, it was published around the same time. Traditionally, the design of the main page has also changed:

In 2002, on the basis of three separate services, a now familiar and convenient tool for searching and selecting the right product was formed -. There was also a significant event in the history of the company - it completely switched to self-sufficiency due to the opening of the service.

The design of the main page has become even closer to the modern version:

2003 was the first year of self-sufficiency, and this search system, in addition to ordinary Html pages, learned to index documents in RTF, PDF, and DOC formats, and a year later it was the turn of Flash sites. A serious spam tool called “Self-Defense” appeared in Y.Mail, and Direct began working on the pay-per-click principle this year.

In 2004, the company's profit already amounted to about ten million dollars, search services appeared on the map, as well as on blogs and forums. Around the same year, on the RuNet search market a powerful competitor has appeared in Google, in connection with which Yandex expanded its staff approximately tenfold to adequately respond.

All interested users were involved in the development of the design of the main page, and as a result, this version of the main page existed right up to 2007 without changes:

In 2005, Yandex decided to think about expansion and a representative office of this company appeared in Nezalezhnaya. And at the end of the same year, a very remarkable event took place for many webmasters - it opened. Don't know what it is?

Now all website owners have the opportunity to place contextual advertising on the pages of their sites and receive fifty percent of the price of each click. For this I want to express special respect, well, even more respect to my tsop (partner service center) Profit Partner, because they actually feed me. Also this year, the Ya.Dictionaries service appeared.

In 2006, Yandex.Maps became able to display traffic jams and a tool for identifying public opinion appeared, where reviews were actually searched for on blogs and forums.

In 2007, a now quite popular analytics tool appeared, which was initially focused primarily on the needs of advertisers in Direct.

Well, the Ukrainian search engine Yandex.ua opened, which now aggregates about a quarter of the search in Nezalezhnaya, and the first version also appeared. Plus we made a new design for the main page:

In 2008, the company opened an office in the states and at the same time support for international standards, MediaRSS, etc. was added to the engine algorithms. This allowed the company to successfully index burzhunet sites that had long supported these standards. Well, from that moment on the Yandex logo began to be written entirely in Russian:

And the design of the main page has undergone its latest reincarnation:

The main event of 2009 was the introduction of regional search (in the Snezhinsk algorithm), which gave Yandex a certain head start relative to Google, whose regional search was divided only by country, and not by city. In 2010, search engine users appeared and were given the opportunity to search only by burzhenet, both through Yandex.ru and through.com.

Around the same time, Ukrainian regional search appeared, and self-learning began to be used to calculate the relevance formula Matrixnet algorithm and Spectrum technology comes into effect.

Matrixnet uses assessments of assessors (determining the quality of individual sites on the network) as reference points, and Range allows you to take into account in the search results all possible meanings included by the user in the query (for example, for the query “Napoleon” it is quite difficult to decide what the user wants to know about - about a cake or about an outstanding figure in history).

Well, in 2011, the leader of Runet search placed its shares on the NASDAQ exchange. I don’t understand the intricacies of this matter, but Yandex gained a huge amount from this (more than a billion in greenbacks), which is slightly less than the amount that Google received in a similar placement in 2004.

That's it, but the story of Yandex does not end there and, most likely, will continue for many years to come.

Now they already have quite a few offices in different cities of the world and if you believe the photographs, the atmosphere in the company is quite democratic:

Features of promotion under Yandex (differences from Google.ru)

Now let's return to the problems of webmasters and optimizers - how to promote your website under Yandex? It's not as simple as it might seem at first glance. In fact, for myself, I do not divide promotion for different search engines into separate components (), but there are nuances and differences and many people focus on them:

1. As a rule, when promoting a competitive search query, you should have several pages on the site that would answer this query. One of them will be pumped by you with external links, and the rest will create the appearance that your resource is focused on answering this user request.

When promoting under Yandex (and under Google.ru, but to a lesser extent), you should take into account that now such a thing as keyword density () no longer works. Search has an excellent understanding of the peculiarities of the Russian language and is able to make an assessment of the topic of an article according to the vector that it contains.

Those. must be in the article, but in a very limited quantity, and all those words and phrases that, in the opinion of the search engine, should be present in such texts (vector) must also be present.

2. Recently, Yandex has been advocating that article texts should not be over-optimized and threatens to punish people for this. It seems to me that re-optimization alone will not be enough to impose a veto - it is necessary that the behavior of users indicates that this text is spam.
3. When ranking, it also takes into account the age of the site (not the domain) and its trustworthiness. Google also takes this into account, but to a slightly lesser extent.
4. External links influence website promotion in Yandex to a slightly lesser extent than when promoting in Google.
5. “Runet Mirror” loves a variety of both link sources and their anchors (texts).
6. As I already said, in the domestic search engine the share of commercial queries is significantly higher than in the bourgeois analogue and competition for them will be much higher
7. When ranking in search results, Google pays more attention to the page that is most relevant to the request (as if in isolation from the site), and Yandex also evaluates other pages of the same resource, as well as the entire resource as a whole.
8. Well, both search engines now actively take into account when determining the relevance of pages, because they allow you to attract a huge number of users to assess the quality of the site (for free).

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Hello, dear readers of the blog site. If you are not familiar yet, then I would like to introduce you to one of the most popular online services on the RuNet called Yandex. It has existed since 1996 and at the dawn of its formation it was exclusively .

Let’s put aside the question “what is Yandex today” for a moment, and let’s talk about where such a strange name came from. Why Yandex? There are several interpretations on this matter and they all answer the question posed.

True, only one of them reflects the real train of thought of the author of this now super-popular word, who was one of the founding fathers of this search engine - Ilya Segalovich(unfortunately, he left us in the middle of last year).

Why is Yandex called Yandex?

In the above photo he is on the far left. Standing next to him is his comrade-in-arms and the second fundamentally Yandex - Arkady Volozh. Well, on the right are Sergey Brin and Larry Page - . This photo was taken at the beginning of this century, when Google planned to buy our domestic search engine and its executives came to Russia for negotiations, but the deal never took place.

So, Ilya was faced with a difficult task - choose a name for the future search engine(not yet available at that time via the Internet) and at the same time not lose face in the dirt. The search keyword index was taken as a basis (read about how important the index is for them, and what it even is).

It was decided that the word-forming phrase would be “yet another indexer,” which translated means “another indexer.” In general, quite modestly and without any claims for future stunning success. The English language in Russia at that time was “” and, naturally, the search system was originally named in the Latin alphabet: YANDEX(Yet Another iNDEXer).

However, the main feature of Yandex at that time (and even now) was that it searches for answers on the Internet. Besides him, at that time the only one doing this was , which is now no longer a full-fledged search engine. In general, the founding fathers decided that they needed to add the Russian letter I at the beginning instead of the English Y and it turned out YANDEX. This could already be interpreted as a Language INDEX.

At that time, its home page looked like this (design by Tema Lebedev):

In 2008, the fashion for writing company names in Latin letters came to an end and YANDEX began to be called simply Yandex.

There are several other interpretations, why Yandex is called Yandex, and despite the fact that they are quite logical and concise, they appeared after the official name was approved. I have already mentioned one of them - Language iNDEX.

Well, the second one says that if you take the first letter “I” and “I” in the word index, then you will get the pronoun “I” - hence YANDEX. The version is beautiful, but somewhat different from what happened in reality.

What is Yandex and what does it represent today?

As I already mentioned, at the dawn of its formation, this online service was exclusively a search engine. He still is, and his share of the RuNet market is very significant and amounts to more than sixty percent.

But time passed and everything changed. With each new year of its existence, Yandex acquired more and more new services and opportunities. Some of them have reached our time unchanged, some have changed, merged or even closed, such as.

Now, if you are looking for a product, you probably turn to to find the store that is optimal in terms of price and reviews. If you are going somewhere, then go to the one that displays the road conditions (traffic jams).

For many, this online service has become the portal from which they start surfing the Internet every day. This is especially convenient because, like the desktop in Windows, it has the ability to add widgets, customize the appearance through the use of themes, and all other services of this mega-portal are available from it.

So what is Yandex? You can’t answer in one word. Let me list all the services collected under his wing, which I had the opportunity to write about in detail. It will probably be much simpler and more visual.

1. — unlike Google, the RuNet mirror initially decided to use its main (start) page for the convenience of users.

   

   Well, by analogy with, a Passport was introduced, which is valid throughout the entire territory of all the possessions of this search engine.

2. - the place where all site owners add their resources to monitor their indexing and visibility in this search engine.
   
   
3. - probably the second most popular payment system in RuNet. Although, if we take into account, it turns out that it is the third.
   
   
4. — here you can order advertising of your products or services on search pages (advertising is displayed at the top or bottom of the search results).
   
   
5. is a very popular service among Russians, because it provides information about traffic jams, allows you to plot routes and create your own (folk) maps.
   
   
6. — this is the flip side of Direct. The fact is that Yandex has a well-functioning system for working with contextual advertising, so why should it limit itself only to its own search results (search results page)?

   

   In general, if you have your own website with daily traffic greater than or equal to 300 unique visitors per day, then register with Profit Partner (the official service center for YAN partners) and earn money, receive prizes and affiliate rewards. Without any nonsense, this is .

7. - a system that differs from a similar Google tool (Analistics) in that it has an intuitive and elegant interface, and is also easy to learn.
   
   
8. — in the Runet market it successfully competes with, and also attracts some users from Jimail.

   

   In terms of functionality, the new incarnation of Yandex Mail is not much inferior to the latter, and in some aspects it is even superior. For example, there is a free opportunity to obtain, which in Google now costs a small penny ().

9. - file storage, which is designed to become a real alternative to Dropbox (read about that) or.
   
   
10. - a new service offering users a fresh selection of materials on topics of interest to them. The selection is generated automatically based on the preferences of each individual user. Read more about the service at the link provided.
11. - the search engine of any SMS on which your site will work will always be worse than this tool. Therefore, do not install it, or its equivalent from Google.
12. - these are not services, but important tools with which the company evaluates the static weight of all indexed documents, and ordinary users can estimate at what price it is worth selling or buying links from certain sites (read about, eternal links or)
    
13. — deceased in God (or rather in Yukoz) free designer of popular sites. Previously, it was possible to create free websites or store and transfer files (the latter function was taken over by the Disk described just above)
14. is a fairly popular add-on for browsers, which, however, is much more necessary for the search engine itself than for users (setting a default search, home page, collecting user preferences, etc.).

    

    Yes, all this is not implemented as aggressively as in , but there is something in common.

15. — previously there was a similar thing in Opera (express panel), but thanks to our hero, now these bookmarks can be used in any browser (installed).
    
    
16. - made on the same engine as Google Chrome, but has a number of individual features that competitors do not have.
    
    
17. — a set of buttons for adding announcements of articles on the site to popular social networks. The statistics of this block can be tracked in Metrica.
    
    
18. - this is not a service or a tool, but simply a statement that this search engine is not yet capable of real-time and updates search results discretely at certain unequal time intervals, which are usually called up.
19. - can search not only by words or phrases entered into the search bar, but also by searching, which you download from your computer or specify its location on the Internet.
    
    
20. - an online service similar to .
21. - well, of course, this is still far from Google translate, but it also gives a very good translation, albeit into a much smaller number of languages.
    
    
22. — will help you measure the speed of the Internet channel you are using.
    
23. — the service is very convenient and quite claims to be the best in RuNet.
    
    
24. - the most popular directory of sites in the entire RuNet, but, unfortunately, not everyone manages to get there even on a paid basis.
25. - the first assistant to those who have already mastered them, because it allows them to collect them and then write articles about them.
26. - a very specific thing that cannot be explained in a nutshell, but you can read the article given at the link.

I think that now, at least in general terms, it has become clear to you what Yandex is and how big and powerful it is. Thank you.

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

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In this tutorial I will show you how to make a Yandex start page. Then, every time you start the browser, the main page of the Yandex website will automatically open.

Method 1: Browser extension

The extension is a free program that can be downloaded and added to the browser. It will automatically change the start page and keep it as default. Now I will show you how to install such an extension:

1. Go to home.yandex.ru
2. Click on the "Install" button
3. In the window, click on “Install extension”

This button may also be called differently: Allow, Add or Run.

After a minute, the extension will be installed and an icon with the letter I will appear at the top of the browser.

Close your browser and open it again. Now, upon startup, the Yandex search engine will immediately appear.

Perhaps the first time a warning window will pop up. In this case, click on “Save Changes”.

Method 2: Set up your home page manually

In any Internet program, you can set up a website that will always open first. Now I will show you how to do this in different browsers on your computer (laptop).

Google Chrome

Click on the button with three dots in the upper corner of the program and select “Settings” from the list.

A new tab will open with the “Launch Chrome” part at the bottom. Click on "Specified Pages" and select "Add Page".

A small window will appear in which type yandex.ru and click “Add”.

That's all! To check the result, you need to close Google Chrome and open it again.

Yandex

Click on the button with three horizontal lines at the very top of the browser on the right side. From the list, select “Settings”.

A new tab with settings will open.

Go down a little lower, to where it says “Open at startup.” And there, click on “Previously opened tabs”, and then check the box “Open yandex.ru if there are no tabs”.

That's all! Now the Yandex search engine will constantly open when the browser starts.

Opera

Click on the “Menu” button in the upper left corner of the program. Select “Settings” from the list.

A new tab will open with the “At startup” part at the top. Click on “Open a specific page or multiple pages”, then click on the “Set pages” link.

In the window that appears, type the address yandex.ru and click OK.

Immediately after this, the Yandex Internet portal will become the home page in Opera. To check this, close the browser and open it again.

Mozilla Firefox

Click on the button with three horizontal lines in the upper right corner of the browser. Select “Settings” from the list.

A new tab will open. In the “At startup” part, click on “Show home page”. Then in the part “Yandex.ru home page

That's all! Close the browser and open it again.

Internet Explorer

Click on the gear button in the upper right corner of the program. From the list, select “Internet Options”.

A small window will open. The site that is currently set as the starting site will be shown there. To change it, delete this address and type yandex.ru instead. Just below, click on “Start on Home Page” and click OK at the bottom.

The window will disappear. Now close Internet Explorer and open it again.

How to make Yandex the default search

Often the main search engine in browsers is Google or Mail.ru. But it can be easily changed to Yandex. Then, when you enter a query in the top line of the program, the results of the yandex search engine will be displayed.

The easiest way is to download and install the official application.

Or you can manually change the default search:

IN Chrome, Yandex Browser or Mozile you need to click on the button with three horizontal lines, click on the “Settings” item and in the “Search” section, select the desired site from the list.

In Opera, click on the “Menu” button and select “Settings”. Then go to the “Browser” section and in the “Search” section, select the one you need from the list.

If you have long wanted to make it easier and faster to find the Yandex home page and make it the start page of your browser, then this article is for you! What makes working with a search engine easier if it is set as the “start page”?

When you open your browser, the search agent page automatically opens, saving you time and effort. Knowing how to set a web page as your home page is very useful.

After all, you can not waste extra time and immediately open the page of interest in your browser. Carrying out this setup is not at all difficult, but some novice Internet users may not know how this is done.

Two main competitors - Yandex and Google

Now we can distinguish 2 main search services - Yandex and Google . Among the Russian-speaking population, naturally, the search engine Yandex is in the lead and there are many reasons for this leadership. Yandex differs from its competitor in a number of advantages:

1. High information content. From the start page you can immediately access all search engine services: news, posters, weather, mail, etc. You can even customize it as you wish thanks to additional widgets and modules.
2. High quality of information output.
3. Pleasant appearance, which can also be customized to your preferences thanks to Yandex themes, which are constantly updated.

The easiest way to set up the Yandex.ru start page is use this special application, which Yandex itself offers. You can install this application using the link http://home.yandex.ru/. Thanks to this application, Yandex will automatically be installed as the home page in all browsers. In this case, no additional manual settings are required. If this application does not work or you simply do not want to download an additional program, you can make the settings manually in each browser.

Manual Yandex settings in various browsers

The steps for installing the home page are almost identical for all browsers, but, nevertheless, each browser has small features of securing the start page. We will look in detail at how to make Yandex the home page for key browsers:

1. Mozilla Firefox;
2. Opera;
3. Google Chrome;
4. Internet Explorer;
5. Yandex Browser;
6. Safari.

The most popular and convenient browsers according to Internet users

Yandex home page in Mozilla Firefox

The first browser we will consider is Mozilla Firefox, which is the leader among Russian users.

To set your home page, go to the settings menu in the upper right corner or simply type “about:preferences” in your browser’s address bar.

In this section, in the “Home Page” or “Home Page” line, indicate the address of the start page, namely http://www.yandex.ru/, and click the “Ok” button.

A nice feature of modern browsers is the lack of case sensitivity, that is, the browser will not care whether you write the site address in capital or small letters.

Yandex start page in Opera

As mentioned earlier, the settings in all browsers are very similar, so setting up the home page in Opera will be almost the same as in Mozilla.

To do this, open the menu in the browser and select the “Settings” section.

The latest versions of browsers are very similar, and accordingly, the settings of many parameters are also the same, including the home page settings

Then click the “Set pages” button and in the window that appears, in the “Add new page” line, indicate the address http://www.yandex.ru/.

You can add several pages to the list at once, so that when you start the browser, several tabs will open.

If at the time of installing the start page you have a Yandex page open in your browser, then you don’t have to enter the address manually, but just click the “Use current pages” button and the Yandex address will be displayed automatically.

After all the steps, click the “Ok” button.

Home page in Google Chrome

Setting up a quick access page in Google Chrome is as easy as in the previous options.

To do this, in the browser “Menu” (the button in the form of 3 horizontal lines in the upper left corner), select “Settings”.

In older versions of Google Chrome, the “Menu” section may be located in the right corner of the browser.

The Settings section of Google Chrome is very similar to the same section in the Opera browser. Is not it?)

A tab has opened where you need to enter the home page address, in our case this is the Yandex address. We agree with our changes and click “Ok”.

As in previous browsers, you can simplify the task and click the “Use current pages” button if the search engine page is already open in the browser.

Yandex home page in Internet Explorer

Now there are many versions of this browser that are installed on computers or laptops, so let’s consider installing the Yandex home page on the latest versions of Internet Explorer - 10 and 11. If you have an earlier version of this browser installed, the installation process will be similar to the algorithm below and it won’t be difficult for you to independently install Yandex as the start page on your browser.

Four simple steps to set up a home page for Internet Explorer:

1. You need to open the browser settings menu (top right);
2. Select the “Browser Options” tab;
3. In the “General” section, find the “Home Page” item and enter the address http://www.yandex.ru/ in the empty line.
4. In the “Startup” item, check the box next to “Start from the home page” and click “OK”.

Home page YANDEX In Yandex browser

The appearance of the Yandex browser is similar to the Google Chrome interface, however, there are some differences when setting up the home page.

Home page pinning scheme:

• Open your browser settings.

The Settings section is represented by a gear icon at the top of the page

• In the context menu, select the “Settings” tab.

This browser does not have the ability to pin the start page. Perhaps this was done with the goal that all users of this program use exclusively the Yandex search service.

This item says that when you reopen the browser, tabs restored from the last session will open, but it is suggested to check the sub-item “ Open www.yandex.ru if there are no tabs" That is, if you closed all tabs before closing the program, then the next time you start the browser, the Yandex page will open.

Yandex start page in Safari.

Safari is a young browser developed by Apple for its proprietary equipment. All modern iPhone and MacBook users know about this simple and convenient browser. To set up a home page in Safari you only need three simple steps:

1. In the upper right corner, click on the gear icon and go to the “Settings” section;
2. Next, select “Basic”;
3. In the “Home Page” window, enter the address of the Yandex search engine.

What to do if the start page is not installed on the browser?

Rarely, there are situations when even following all the instructions, you cannot set the start page through the browser settings manually. What to do in this case? There are several suggestions:

1. Try downloading the app http://home.yandex.ru/, which was mentioned at the very beginning of our article, and try to automatically make changes to the browser. Just remember that the start page will change in ALL installed browsers on your computer.
2. Clean your computer using antivirus and resume trying to set Yandex as your home page.
3. And finally, if all the methods do not help achieve the desired result, contact support your operating system. Describe your actions in detail, indicate any errors that occur and add screenshots of your actions to your message.

Yandex.Browser is a free and modern browser for a computer with the Turbo loading function of “heavy” web pages at the fastest possible speed.

Download Yandex Browser for Windows 7, 8 and 10

The application was created on the famous Blink engine, which was developed and first implemented in Chrome by Google. The success of the program among the Russian-speaking audience came thanks to its minimalistic and pleasant design, as well as built-in and useful widgets for various Yandex services of its own design.

Distinctive features:

• integrated module for viewing and editing PDF, DOC, XLS, TXT and other documents;
• built-in antivirus from Kaspersky Lab, capable of scanning downloaded content and separately downloaded files;
• the panel has quick access to the weather, email, viewing traffic jams, logging into cloud storage (disk), as well as “smart” search;
• built-in Adguard extension with a lifetime license (included in Settings - Add-ons, Ad blocking section).

You can download Yandex browser from the official website for free in Russian for Windows 7, 8 and 10 OS of any bit depth using the links below. The installation is standard and default.

The mobile browser of Yandex Corporation has become popular and has gained a leading position in the RuNet. Provides users of Android mobile devices with instant opening of even very busy web pages of sites on smartphones and tablets using Turbo 2.0 mode. For the convenience of users, the free web browser Yandex.Browser easily and quietly adapts the site page to the size of the phone screen.

Especially on mobile devices, there is increased attention to security and the Protect technology will warn the user in the event of a dangerous site and also block the transfer of personal data through an open Wi-Fi network.

The free mobile browser has additional synchronization with other user devices with the ability to restore data even after re-installation via an APK file or the Market. All built-in and additional official extensions can be downloaded without registration and in Russian.

Download Yandex browser on iPhone and iPad

The latest version of the application on the iOS system makes opening and browsing websites as comfortable as possible, loading even large pages much faster. iPad and iPhone users are offered Smart Prompt functionality for entering queries using the keyboard or voice, a powerful interest recommendation system, and protection against any malicious data. The modern and simple interface style makes the free Yandex.Browser fast and convenient.

The developers have introduced so-called configurations into the program for simultaneous use on several mobile devices. Yandex browser is updated frequently and therefore it is important to monitor and always install the new, current version.

You can install Yandex Browser on your computer for free using the latest official version using the link below. It is recommended to install by default on the system drive C for stable operation of the application.