Collapses found strings in Yandex. Why do search results in Yandex differ in different browsers and computers? Tell your friends on social networks

16.04.2020

15.03.2017

Using the Internet may not always be safe. By downloading or opening dubious files, you can get various viruses and a lot of advertising, which can not only interfere with the correct operation of your computer, but can also steal your data. Advertising, unsafe search engines and websites are one of the most common problems faced by users.

Causes of problems with involuntary opening of Yandex Browser

Most often the browser does not open with empty tabs, it can be different start pages and sites with advertising. You can also notice substitution of advertising from the same Google on various sites. Users can “catch” this type of virus in several ways:

Troubleshooting

Step 1: Check and fix the file "Hosts"

This file can only be accessed with administrator rights. It can be very easily corrected and checked using notepad. To do this you need:

Action 2: Cleaning up the clutter from the task scheduler

This is precisely the reason that Yandex.Browser opens windows with advertising through certain time, there is a task scheduler. To prevent tabs from opening, you need to disable them in the scheduler. You can do it like this:

Action 3: Cleaning up unnecessary startup stuff

You can clean up unnecessary and malicious tasks from startup quite easily. in a simple way. To do this, you only need the CCleaner program, which we have already written about:

Step 4: Remove malware

There may be active processes in the task manager that are interfering with normal operation computer and are malicious. Their name may change every time and there is no point in displaying them, but their detection and removal should be mandatory. You can do all the steps without the help of software, but it will be more difficult and time consuming, so it is better to use convenient free programs.

Download the free Adwcleaner program and complete easy installation. Launch the program and start scanning. Once the scan is complete, simply press the button "Clear".

You can also use another free program to clean your computer from viruses. Download Malwarebytes and follow the easy installation. Free version A program for a period of 14 days is enough for you to completely clean your computer of malware. Complete the scan and then click on “Quarantine selected objects”.

Step 5: Remove Extensions and Change Home Page

If there were browser-related viruses on your computer, then most likely your Homepage, and unnecessary extensions were installed. You can return everything to its place quite simply:

After that, restart your browser and use it safely, quickly and conveniently.

All five steps given in this article will help you thoroughly clean your computer from malware, which force Yandex Browser to open with various advertisements. Also, timely detection of malware will help you save your personal data.

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If you are looking for a site, you may have noticed that in one browser the site is in first place, in the second - in third, somewhere it is not in the TOP10 at all.
In this article we will tell you why this happens.
There are actually several reasons, but they are divided into two groups: personal search results and non-personal ones (in other words, even in a “clean” browser of an anonymous visitor, the search results can also be different).
Let's look at them one by one.

1. Personal issue

Using a search engine, be it Yandex or Google? you can be logged in to Yandex.mail or Gmail. Thus, the system is uniquely familiar with the visitor, his search history and preferences. Moreover, the user login is additional help system, the principle works even if you are not authorized in the search engine service - some data is already known about you if you have not cleared COOKIE or deleted your browser.

If you visited a site more often than others, the search engine may show it above other results. There is a similar system in VKontakte - in the list of friends for the request “Alexander”, the Alexander whose page you recently viewed will appear. Another user will have a completely different Alexander.

The search platform from Yandex - Kaliningrad is described in more detail below.

2. Issue settings and regions

In addition to classic preferences, search engines A number of other factors are taken into account:

Search region determined by your IP address
If in Nizhny Novgorod you are in first place, then in Moscow it may be impossible to find you at all.
Safe search
If Safe Search is enabled, some of the sites may disappear from the search results - and this also affects the results
Number of results per page.
Some people configure Yandex to view not 10 results on a page, but 50. This also affects the search results.

All this greatly affects search results. However, even on clean systems with default settings, output may also vary. Here are the reasons for this:

3. Yandex experiments

There is information that Yandex regularly conducts experiments to improve the quality of search and make Direct (Yandex contextual advertising) more profitable. 5-10 experiments are regularly carried out at the same time, each of which affects approximately 4% of the audience. Users for experiments are selected either regionally (for example, Moscow) or randomly.
On one computer the site is in 5th place, and on the second you can accidentally run into an experiment.
Experiments could be the following, for example:

Lower an interesting site in positions in order to increase the click-through rate of advertising
Activate new algorithm
Activate new design(for example, right now a number of people are seeing the new design of Yandex - the island).
Show or hide information results(eg Wikipedia)

Experimenting with small segments of your audience to improve search quality is a good thing. However, the search results are different.

4. Competitors from contextual advertising

All search engines exist by making money from contextual advertising. This is their main bread. It’s clear that the more of this bread, the better.

Search engines may demote a site that competes with contextual advertising. Let's say you are in 5th position on one computer.
You open a second computer - bam, someone put an ad in the advertisement (or it’s the turn to show the ad). That's it, the site is undervalued in positions. Or, on the contrary, the position of one of your competitors in the search results has been reduced, or, conversely, the ad has disappeared - the positions have increased.

As a result, even on a clean system and clean anonymous browser output may vary.

5. Internal search engine architecture

Yandex uses the Apache Hadoop system. Search requires a lot of resources, and one or two servers (parent) store information that spreads across hundreds of other computers. Thus, all search users are connected to the machines that perform the search. All index updates are constantly “uploaded” to these machines. If someone logs into a machine that has outdated data, or too new, then the search results will be outdated or new. Another visitor, who by chance was connected to another machine, will receive different data. And again, even on a clean system and a clean anonymous browser, the output may differ.

6. Quick index and news

Search engines use multiple indexes. The first, large and clumsy, contains data on the vast majority of network pages. The quick index, in turn, contains the latest news (hours, minutes, seconds). These are messages from blogs, Twitter, hot news. Such news may appear at any time, and when viewed in a second browser, it may shift search results or disappear as outdated.

Some information about Kaliningrad (Yandex search platform)

Its purpose is to personalize search tips and issuing results.
The main goal that Yandex specialists have set for themselves is to provide users with correct, tailored answers to ambiguous queries. If a person uses a search engine for the first time, he will be shown suboptimal results. But for people who have already used the search several times, Yandex will offer a personalized result, which will be compiled taking into account their behavior history.

The Kaliningrad search platform works for all users about whom it is possible to collect information. The adaptive mechanism is activated as soon as there is enough data. Information is checked once a day. To start receiving personal results, 20 clicks and about a dozen requests are enough.

To measure ranking personalization, use custom metrics. The calculation takes into account the click-through rate of the first positions and the number of responses that were not clicked on. Andrey Strelkovsky, responsible for developing the Yandex ranking system, says that the results are personalized in more than half of the cases. On average, 75% of user requests for the TOP 10 sites are changed thanks to this algorithm. Their number is 114 million requests per day.

Last year, the list of search suggestions varied little between different users. In fact, only the country and city of residence were taken into account. The first step in personalizing suggestions was to add to the list of requests those that were recently asked by the user (they are highlighted in purple). Users will now be shown personalized search suggestions based on each person's interests.

Personal search is enabled by default for all users who access Yandex quite often. Obviously, the more questions a person asks, the better the search engine will understand him. If there are few clicks on the answers found, then personal search is disabled. As soon as the user starts asking again a large number of questions, the system turns on again. Of course, personal search can be disabled at any time through the settings.

What is Kaliningrad like?

The Kaliningrad search platform includes a number of products that are part of personal search. So this includes:

Personal selection. Yandex will offer the user only those answers that suit him. For this purpose, a ranking formula is applied. It takes into account the language of communication - so far only Russian or English (Reykjavik search platform), as well as search history.
Personal tips. In the search bar, the user will see among the suggestions those queries that were entered by people with similar interests. According to the developers, 400 thousand user groups have been identified that are interested in the same topics.
Lilac clues. Statistics show that users repeat about 24% of their requests. That is why Yandex adds to the hints those phrases that the user has entered recently. Such hints are highlighted in lilac. With their help, the user can instantly repeat the query entered earlier.
Favorite sites in tips. Very often, users use search engines to look for resources whose URLs they cannot remember. Now Yandex remembers the sites that users go to from search results and includes them in suggestions. According to representatives of the search engine, every day users click on personal navigation tips 3.3 million times. 18 million people use this feature every week.
Instant tips. Yandex not only takes into account search history, but also analyzes queries that are typical for a particular search session. After entering the next question, the search engine determines what else the user may be interested in on this topic and adds suitable options to the set of suggestions. Every day, Yandex offers similar suggestions that take into account the previous request 53 million times.

Personal search will allow the user to save up to 14% of time. This will be about 8 minutes per week. Enough to drink a cup of tea or call friends.

This is an extremely relevant topic. Many people use Yandex.Stroy in Windows or shape Yandex search in browser. Traditionally, answers to popular queries and search suggestions are displayed in the input field itself in the form of a live search. This is very convenient, but... search engines, including Yandex, collect information about your interests on the Internet, then try to guess your preferences taking into account these interests. Those. It’s worth looking for a recipe for buns in Yandex once, and the next time as soon as you enter the letter “P”, a bunch of hints with the word “bun” will pop up. This indirectly indicates your past search history and online interests. Sometimes a computer is used by multiple people, and you don't always want the other person to see your search history. How to delete queries in the Yandex search bar if you don’t want to share your interests with other people, read on.

We will look at what to do when using the search bar in the browser and for search in Yandex on the taskbar Windows.

To prevent hints from popping up in the browser

First thing. We delete the search history in the browser itself. This does not apply to Yandex search, but what's the point of hiding your past queries if you can easily find a list of all visited sites in your browser.

You can see how to clear your browser history in the pictures. Or find more details on the Internet if your browser is not listed below.

Clearing browsing history in Mozilla FireFox

Clearing browsing history in Google Chrome

Clearing browsing history in Opera

It is also possible clear cookies after each search use. In this case, the search history information will no longer be associated with your browser. After clearing your cookies, search suggestions will no longer contain any information about you.

However, the easiest way to set up is " Personal search" so that the suggestions do not reveal information about your search history.

The algorithm is as follows:

How to delete requests in Yandex String

In Windows 10, Yandex.String is located on the taskbar, default. Yandex.Stroke makes it possible to implement search query to the Internet directly from the taskbar without directly launching the browser. Another line searches folders on your computer. And can react to voice commands. Quite convenient and safe if only you use the computer.

Where does Yandex.Stroke get search suggestions?

The string draws information from multiple sources

list of links on request from Yandex search
links to sections of the selected site
answers to popular Yandex queries
computer media indexing results (HDD, SSD, etc.)