Yandex internet portal search engine home page. How to make Yandex a home page in a browser for free: an overview of methods. How to make Yandex your start page automatically

Now many users prefer the Yandex service - the main page, which you can make the start page on your computer, will help you save a lot of time to manual transition. You can work on installing the start page in different ways. Let's consider them further.

To make the Yandex home page open on your computer - make it the start page, several simple ways will help you save automatically.

1. Just download Yandex browser... You can do it for free, yandex.ru will help you. In the upper left corner there will be an icon Set as homepage.
2. You can open and download the application to your computer from the site yandex.ru. We launch and change the startup one in all browsers that your computer has.
3. In certain cases, it is currently not possible to make Yandex the start page automatically. This time it follows configure the browser.

How to make Yandex the start page in Opera, Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome?

To go to settings at the Opera, define a button "Instruments" and click on it.

From the drop-down list, select "Settings" - "General settings". In this part of the algorithm, we find a window with a tab "Basic"... Your required inscription - "At startup"... And opposite it is a drop-down list from which we choose "Start on home page." Find the inscription "Home" and print in the address bar www.yandex.ru. Press the coveted button "OK" and restart the browser.

When installing the Yandex start page in Mozilla Firefox you need to find the orange button in the upper left corner. Next, we go to the point "Settings"... We are almost there. Find the mark "When Firefox starts up" and choose Show home page... On the opposite of the inscription, which we so need ( "Homepage"), we put the address already familiar to us. And restart the browser. You can use it.

And we can't wait to talk about Google chrome:

1. We look at the browser and find in the upper right corner a button. Click to open a new tab.
2. We have an option "Settings" and then our required command "Manage Google Chrome".
3. It remains for us to pay attention to the button "Options"- that is what we need. More precisely, we need to select the function " Basic " and "Home page".
4. We put a tick in front of the item "Open this page"... After all that has been done according to tradition, we write our favorite address - www.yandex.ru and finish everything with a button "Close".

Video: make Yandex your home page

As you can see, through simple combinations, subject to a careful search for all the necessary options, installing the Yandex start page is a very exciting experience. Now you can quickly find the information you need or go to using programs and options.

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

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

To accomplish this, you can use one of the following methods. It is quite easy to install and fix Yandex as a homepage, and in this article we will take a closer look at the options on how to do this.

It all depends on which browser you use, because the applications and settings algorithms for each program are different. But I wonder why there is no start page at all in the Yandex Browser itself?

The most versatile and simple 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 "Set as homepage".

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

Installation with a free utility

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Yandex itself provides us with a convenient and convenient way to customize the initial pages in browsers with the help of automatic utilities specially created for this.

When the download is over, you should install a manager on your computer or, and this smart utility will be able to monitor the change of the home page by itself, even in spite of the actions of various malicious programs.

The manager will be able to save you from such unpleasant surprises as Webalta and calculate so that only Yandex remains in the role of the start in your browser. But not always the manager can get around all the obstacles. More on this later in the article.

The most common browsers in use today are:

If you are a supporter of the classic default browser Internet Explorer, then the following algorithm will help you customize the Yandex start page.

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

You can also call this menu by simultaneously pressing the Alt + X hotkey combination.

In the drop-down menu, select "Browser properties" , or else it may be called "Browser property" ... Next, open the tab "General" .

In operating systems such as Windows 8.1, Internet Explorer is built-in.

But the installation has been done in the same way as other versions of this browser for almost 20 years now.

To make Yandex the start page in Internet Explorer 10 and Internet Explorer 11, follow these steps:

1. In the upper right corner, click "Settings" and choose "Browser properties" .
2. We enter links to the addresses of the home pages in the field. If, besides Yandex, other links are needed, then here we also enter the addresses to them. Each line should contain only one address.
choose "Start on 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 upon loading.

Installing on Microsoft Edge

Read also:Yandex Zen: What is it and how to use it? + [Pros and Cons]

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

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

We enter the required address "https://www.yandex.ru" into the text field in the same way as in the case of Internet Explorer.

Fixing our actions by pressing a button "Save" ... When you restart your browser, Yandex will become the newly introduced home page.

Installation in Google Chrome

Google Chrome is the most popular browser based on independent surveys on the Internet and offers us the following method. In the browser, we are looking for the icon "Settings"
and open it.

Find the button "Appearance" ... Turn on the add-on Show Home Button .

On the line with the request "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 restarting Google Chrome, it will be displayed when the button is pressed "Home" (image of the house).

And if you want Yandex to load completely automatically, then you should use another 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 check mark (if it is not checked) "Next Pages" .

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

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

If you 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 an Alt + Home keyboard shortcut in Google Chrome that will help you quickly open the home page in the current browser tab.

Installation in Mozilla Firefox

When you open the Mozilla Firefox browser, you need to click on the icon
and open "Settings" — "Basic" .

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

As in Google Chrome, in Mozilla Firefox, you can navigate to the home page using the Alt + Home keyboard shortcut.

Installing in Opera

Supporters of the Opera browser can use the following method: by combining the Alt + P hotkeys, bring up a 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 the operations, we confirm the actions by pressing the button "OK" and set the switch to position "Open start page" .

That is all the necessary steps to achieve our goal - to make Yandex Search the home page in the Opera browser.

After completing all the instructions, the browser will automatically open the search engine at startup.

Installing in Safari

Installing Yandex in the Safari browser is considered the easiest option. In the Safari menu, select successively the items Safari , Further "Settings" and "Basic" .

Safari is configured and Yandex is the start page. Congratulations!

After installing Yandex as a home page, you can go ahead and personalize it for the user. Set up your desktop, so to speak.

The process is not complicated if you figure out step by step what needs to be done. Yandex has a huge number of useful, convenient and necessary ones that will make your daily work more comfortable and progressive.

Customization is done by adding widgets to it (icons with the necessary programs) and changing the interface for the user (a nice theme for your page design).

Yandex itself invites us to add and configure widgets in the order that is convenient for us, install any theme, change basic personal settings.

To fully cover the entire range of services provided by Yandex, you should register yourself for correspondence and for storing important information online.

Don't worry, they won't be publicly shared with all users. This is a semblance of a personal cell in a bank, where your documents, photos and others are stored.

Save your logins and passwords with LastPass for easy reference.

So, to customize the home page, we need:

• Log in to your Yandex.mail that you registered.
• We open there "Personal settings" and select the menu item "Configure Yandex" .
• We determine which widgets we want to see on the desktop, and delete all unnecessary ones by clicking the cross in the upper right corner of each of them. Don't worry if you delete something by mistake. It is possible to cancel the action with the button "Return" or "Reset settings" ... When you finally decide on a set of widgets, click on the button "Save" .
• Then we go to the point "Add widget" , select the desired categories from the categories, point the mouse cursor over them and click "Add" , after which it is added to the page. Push "Leave" .
• We arrange the widgets in the order we need, moving them to the places we need. Push the button "Save" .
• Go to the menu item "Put the topic" , choose the one you like and click "Save Topic"

So, now the home page has acquired a completely different look, pleasing to you, convenient and pleasant to use.

If the start page doesn't want to change in any way? Have you tried all of the above methods but still loading Webalta, Pirrit Suggestor, Conduit Search or other suspicious sources?

Probably the only problem that every user is likely to face is the inability to change the start page in the browser due to one or another malicious software (software).

And then constantly on the start page we can see how Conduit Search, Webalta or Pirrit Suggestor are loaded, which we do not need in any way. We will analyze how to deal with this further.

Be sure to check your computer for viruses or other malicious programs using an antivirus.

If the antivirus says that there are no viruses, then you will have to look for additional information about removing undetected malware.

In the same way, do not forget to check your browser shortcut. But nevertheless, if a problem occurs and Webalta opens when starting Chroma, Opera or Mozilla, then you should definitely review and check for errors in the properties of shortcuts for launch. This requires:

Column "Properties" in the shortcut of the Chrome browser

2 Next, go to the tab "Label" and looking for a stanza "An object" ... You need to make sure that there is no one or another mention of Webalta after specifying the path to the browser file. The clean one should look like this: "C: \ Program Files \ Mozilla Firefox \ Firefox.exe". If something superfluous is mentioned at the end, then unconditionally delete it and click Apply ... If there is, then we delete this part, after which we confirm our actions by pressing the button "OK" .

Rambler

Today we set off on another long journey along the ornate paths of search engine development ( Яndex, Yandex). I think that the domestic giant of network search has long ago grown to such a level that it is not too lazy to dig all its lobbies, remember how the Yandex search engine developed, what was interesting over the years of its existence.

Moreover, it receives a lot of visitors from the Yandex search engine. Many of them are leaving for contextual advertising, I recently accepted the blog, so I believe that this company is more than worthy of a big publication about it.

If we take into account the Russian Internet, then here Yandex is the undisputed leader. In Russia, this is the first search engine in terms of importance. There are regional search engines, a kind of branches in Belarus, Ukraine, Kazakhstan. Yandex is very popular among residents of these countries. I can judge this at least by statistics, seeing that a lot of visitors come from other regions.

Currently Yandex is not only a search engine, it is also numerous services that can be accessed by absolutely all users of this search engine. Here you can find the necessary information and navigate the choice of leisure activities, find pictures, goods, compare prices, watch the weather, communicate on a social network, watch the schedule of TV programs, transport. There are numerous corporate solutions. You can even go to Narod.ru. Yandex has a convenient system that implements functionality for working with your sites. Among the latest available innovations of the service - which remained paid for a long time, but in December 2011 this service became available to absolutely everyone.

You can go on about the wonderful technologies and useful services of Yandex for a very, very long time. Therefore, for the convenience of perceiving information, I will break our journey into components. I will describe the entire path of the search engine in chronological order by year - from its creation to the present time.

Yandex development history

1980s - 1990s

History of Yandex development takes root in the now distant 80s, the existence of the USSR. It was then that the development of software for search in the Arcadia company began for the first time. The work was carried out under the leadership of Arkady Borkovsky and Arkady Volozh. It was that first search technology received the name "Яndex". And the Yandex site itself, the same one that we can see today, appeared in 1996. The developments that were carried out at that time were recognized as promising, as a result of which the management of CompTek (sale of computers and components) and the developers of the system decided on the advisability of further developing the technology and introducing it to the masses. In this regard, a concept for the development of the project was prepared, aimed at a wide audience.

Yandex was officially announced only on September 23, 1997. And in fact, at first it was one of the divisions of CompTek International. That is, independence there was generally a gulkin's nose. And only in 2000 Yandex became the company that you can see it today. In the sense that the company has already become completely independent. Independent Yandex.

By the way, long before the announcement of the search engine Yandex, the companies came up with a name. Yandex - means "Language index". If translated from English, it turns out "Yet Another indexer". True, later, as the search engine developed, other interpretations began to appear. For example, if you translate the first letter (I - I) from English into Russian in the English Index, you get "Яndex".

They came up with the name "Yandex" Ilya Segalovich (current director of technology), and Arkady Volozh

A year before the official release of the company, on October 18, 1996, the Netcom'96 exhibition took place, at which CompTek presented the first products of the developing search engine. These were Yandex.Site and Yandex.Dict. Then, six months later, Yandex.CD appeared - searching for documents on CD-ROM, and then the Yandex.Lib project started. It was a Yandex package library intended to be embedded in all kinds of applications and databases.

At the time when Yandex.ru was officially presented to the public, the following can be distinguished from the interesting:

Assessment of the relevance of documents. At that time, Yandex was pretty good at finding copies and excluding them. At the same time, documents were searched in various encodings.

Search by exact word form. Yashka knew how to search based on morphology

Search based on distance. Yandex was able to search within a paragraph, by exact phrases

Functioned core for assessing the relevance of pages. For each request, documents were selected taking into account their relevance (relevance) to the request. In addition, when selecting documents for search results, the frequency (density) of the keyword on the page was taken into account. By the way, precisely because of the imperfection (at that time) of this algorithm, pages densely packed with keywords appeared in the top of the search results, in fact without meaning.

Also, the search took into account the distance between words, and how the words are located in the document.

Yandex website design

The very first design for the Yandex site was rather primitive and imperfect. It was developed by the well-known Artemy Lebedev. He looked like this

By the way, the Yandex forum was opened in the same year. It was intended for communication between system users and developers. The idea was good and the forum functioned well. True, it existed until 2008. Then there was a slight reshuffle of priorities. As far as I can tell, the preference was given to socialization. In addition, Yandex began to actively develop its own social network, on the basis of which the current blog appeared, where all Yandex announcements are published, and where, in fact, users communicate with developers. You can see for yourself, the old forum url ( http://forum.yandex.ru/yandex/) today redirects to the well-known http://webmaster.ya.ru/.

1998 year

The project, which got started, showed good potential, they continued to work on it. In 1998, the search engine was improved, and many other functionalities were introduced for users. In particular, it became possible to search in the found, search for similar documents and much more. Work is also underway on the design of the Yandex home page. Now she has changed a little

As you can see, outwardly, nothing has changed much. To a greater extent, technical work was carried out

1999 year

Over the year, the audience of the Russian share of the Internet has grown significantly. Together with it, the quality and technology of Yandex have grown, the developers have introduced many improvements. The Yandex search engine has introduced a new search bot, which significantly increased the speed of crawling documents on the web.

The innovations that affected the user parts of the functionality were as follows:

Now you can search more specifically - by annotations, signatures, pictures, titles

We have introduced a search restriction for a group of sites

Separately highlighted documents in Russian

By the way, it was in 1999 that the well-known concept (thematic citation index) was first introduced to everyone today. True, then it was calculated rather primitively. The authority of the site (aka TIC) depended to a greater extent on the number of sites that linked to the domain of interest to us.

The design of the main page, by the way, has also changed. Now it has become already something more similar to the current one.

There was also one more significant event in 1999. It was then that a free website builder appeared, better known to all of us as Narod.ru (free hosting and file sharing). By the way, this project still exists. The motto of this project was as follows - in 60 seconds.

year 2000

Perhaps it was the introduction of new services that allowed Yandex to reach a fundamentally new level of development. Over time, the search engine firmly cemented its status, which made it possible significantly. In fact, it was already a new project, not the one that started under the auspices of CompTek.

In 1999, Arkady Volozh, realizing the prospects for the development of the project, began to engage only in promoting Yandex. But the difficulty at the same time was that it was necessary to find experienced partners who would have the skills of corporate building. The only difficulty was that it was necessary to find such partners who would invest in the development of the project, but at the same time would not require a complete transfer of management to their own authority.

And such a partner was found. It was the company ru-Net Holdings... In the spring of 2000, an investment agreement was signed with this company. Here, however, there were some casualties. A certain share of the search engine still had to be given. According to the agreement, 1/3 of the search engine left the company. That is, from that moment on Yandex ceased to be a structural division of CompTek, but became an independent company, which had its own offices, its own management, its own budget, etc. Arkady Volozh became the CEO of the company.

I think Yandex was very lucky with its first head, because Volozh turned out to be not only a specialist in finding potential partners, but also a good innovator. After the start of an independent "voyage" in the company, tremendous changes began. The staff has significantly increased, and the resource itself has received a new kick from its leaders.

In total, ru-Net Holdings invested about $ 5 million. What can I say, the deal turned out to be very profitable, especially considering the fact that today the number one search engine in the Russian Internet will cost at least several hundred million dollars. This is at the most conservative estimate.

The year 2000 became significant also for the reason that it was in this year that Yandex's multiportality began to emerge more clearly, because many services began to appear that were not directly tied to search. Such services are Yandex.News, Yandex.Mail, Postcards, a search bar at ya.ru. In addition, there were many services that later merged, becoming what we know today as Yandex.Market. In addition, another significant innovation was the introduction of specialized software for integration into user browsers - Yandex Bar.

year 2001

This year became a turning point, because in 2001 Yandex became the leader of the Russian Internet in terms of attendance. In addition, the amount of information stored on the company's servers has grown. Its size was 1 terabyte. By the way, Yandex.Pictures appeared this year as well. In addition, the Yandex.Money electronic payment system appeared.

In addition, the design of the Yandex home page has been significantly improved. Links to new services and news appeared here. We can say that, in general, the outlines of today's Yandex have already appeared.

2002 year

This year, the developers have been actively working to improve the communication service - Yandex.Mail. A lot of work has been done to filter the correspondence. 2002 was the year of the merger of three services - Goods, Guru and Pick into one - Yandex.Market. By the way, you can see for yourself that this service is very relevant even today. Perhaps for the first time in all the years of investing in 2002 there was a goal - to reach self-sufficiency. It was necessary to develop a strategic system for monetizing the project. Moreover, one that would bring stable and large profits in the long term. It has become such a model, and it is precisely the income that the company began to receive from this advertising model that made it possible to reach self-sufficiency much earlier than expected. Therefore, we can say that 2002 was a turning point in terms of entering a business-oriented model, which, moreover, has already begun to bear fruit.

2003 year

Active work on the Yandex.Mail service continued this year. Here, the next massive changes were introduced that affected all users of the system. Of course, Ya. Mail has become more functional and convenient. Looking ahead, I want to say that in the future the service has also developed very actively, and its users have seen many new interesting features more than once. In particular, users received an unlimited mailbox size and a new spam filter "Spam Defense". In 2003, the Yandex design was renewed again.

By the way, each design corresponded to a specific version. The 2003 version of the design was the eighth in a row, and it looked like this

Any rollout of a new design version initially goes through a beta testing period. And if before that beta tests were carried out in a closed mode, then this time, in two weeks of trial testing of the new interface, anyone could get access to the new interface. True, a year later the main one was upgraded again, but more successfully. And it existed in this form until 2007.

Yandex even at that time was already a fairly reputable company, because already in 2003 the Yandex search engine was successfully introduced into the presidential website. In the fall of 2003, the developers rolled out the next product updates: Yandex.Publisher (Yandex.Publisher), Yandex.Server (Яndex.Server), which became the legacy of Yandex.Site.

2004 year

The business model occupied by the number one search engine in the Russian Internet worked very well, as a result of which the profit received by the company in 2004 was already tens of millions of dollars. This gave impetus to the development of new services, for example, a map search service, blogs, forums. The year 2004 is also notable for the fact that it was then that a serious competitor in the person of Google appeared on the Russian market. There was an urgent need to join the struggle for leadership, as a result of which the management of Yandex decided to increase the number of employees tenfold. Initially, there were 200, after the renewal of the staff, there were 2,000 employees. But the main thing is that after the personnel renewal, nothing has changed for the worse. The traditions remained, the technologies were also up to par. In general, we can say that Yasha has not turned into a dry corporation.

The battle of technology: Yandex vs Google

2005 year

This year passed under the slogan of the geographical expansion of the company's representative office. Because a Ukrainian representative office of Yandex appeared - Yandex.Ukraine. By the way, the director of this representative office is Sergey Petrenko, the founder of the well-known serch and the author of the interesting blog BloGnot

2005 became significant also because my beloved was opened. This is a service based on the principle of "kolotibablo webmaster", and if in Russian, it is a service that allows webmasters to place advertisements on their sites.

Yandex.Dictionaries appeared in the same year. Changes have also taken place in the Yandex.Money service. Now all users have the opportunity to manage their account through the Internet wallet.

2006 year

This year will be remembered for the appearance of the now well-known service blogs.yandex.ru. This is a kind of marketing tool. Allowed to study public opinion, reviews in blogs, forums. Yandex.Maps has introduced a traffic display tool.

From 2006 to 2010 Yandex was located in the old office on Samokatnaya street in Moscow

As you can see, they were a bit cramped earlier. It's not now, a huge building with 2,000 employees.

In 2006, there was another interesting event - the first remote development office was opened in St. Petersburg. Then, of course, the scale was not yet the same. It's not like there are 11 offices in Yandex today in Russia, Ukraine, Turkey and even California. Offices differ in their types of activities. There are development offices, sales offices, offices that work in the direction of product localization

2007 year

This year there have been more webmaster-oriented events. In particular, the Yandex.Photo service has appeared. But for me, as a webmaster, a more interesting event is the emergence of the service Yandex.Metrica... True, then it was a completely crude service, and it was focused not on webmasters, but on Yandex.Direct advertisers. In the same year, a Ukrainian representative office was opened - Yandex.ua. Today, according to LiveInternet data, almost 14% of Russian-language traffic falls on yandex.ua

Also in 2007, he started a project known to all webmasters, which is not used now, probably only lazy

2008 year

We can say that this year Yandex's sphere of influence has increased so much that it was decided to open a branch of the search engine in the USA, California. At the same time, significant additions were made to the algorithms. In particular, the international standards Sitemap, MediaRSS, etc. began to be supported. That is, as you can see, the spheres of interest have gone far beyond the limits of the Russian Internet. The number one search engine of the Russian Internet has now become English-language sites. Before that, the problem was that the domestic search engine did not support international standards, and therefore there was a problem with the indexing of sites from the bourgeoisie, but after the 2008 upgrade, this problem was resolved. And after that, the Yandex logo began to be written entirely in Russian.

year 2009

This year was significant because before that there was no division of search by region. That is, before the introduction of this algorithm, it was built on the principles of uniformity. You enter, for example, in the search line the query "" in Moscow and Novosibirsk, and you get the same results. Now everything has changed. And the search results are mixed with results based on the principle of geo-dependence. Simply put - if you search with Yandex in Moscow and Novosibirsk, the results will be different.

In 2009, work continued in the previously selected western direction. In particular, a service was tested with the help of which foreign sites were translated. Then this service evolved, and in 2011 it became known as Yandex.Translation.

An equally important event was the introduction of a new method of machine learning - Matrixnet... This technology applies various patterns as an assessment, and takes into account various ranking factors. But the main thing is that the technology is self-learning. When assessing assessors, only real patterns are assessed, finding nonexistent ones is completely excluded.

The revolutionary nature of this technology lies in the fact that Matrixnet uses an incredibly complex ranking formula that takes into account a huge number of factors. This, on the one hand, makes it possible to achieve better search results, and on the other hand, it does not allow webmasters to understand this pattern, and, therefore, to influence it in their own interests.

MatrixNet technology in detail:

2010 year

The old office on Samokatnaya street is a thing of the past, and the whole company has moved to new mansions. Actually, it became the main event of 2010