How to make a search was Yandex. All the secrets of Google search: there really is everything

Search engines are improving every day, helping users to get the right content among huge layers of information. Unfortunately, in many cases, the search request cannot be satisfied due to the insufficient accuracy of the request itself. There are several secrets of setting up a search engine that will help weed out unnecessary information and give more correct results.

In this article, we will consider some of the rules for generating a request in the Yandex search engine.

1. By default, the search engine always returns results for all forms of the entered word. Putting the operator “!” in front of the search word in the line (without quotes), you will only get results with that word in the specified form.

The same result can be achieved by turning on advanced search and clicking the "Exactly as in the query" button.

2. If you put “!!” in front of the word, the system will select all forms of this word, excluding forms related to other parts of speech. For example, it will match all forms of the word "day" (day, afternoon, day), but will not show the word "child".

Context Refinement

With the help of special operators, the mandatory presence and position of a word in the search is specified.

1. If you put the query in quotation marks ("), Yandex will look for exactly this position of words on web pages (ideal for finding quotes).

2. In the event that you are looking for a quote, but do not remember a certain word, put the * sign instead, and be sure to put the entire query in quotation marks.

3. Prefixing a word with a + sign indicates that the word must be found on the page. There can be several such words, and before each you need to put +. A word in a string that is not preceded by this sign is considered optional and the search engine will show results with and without this word.

4. The "&" operator helps to find documents in which the words marked by the operator occur in the same sentence. The icon must be placed between words.

5. The “-” (minus) operator is very useful. It excludes the marked word from the search, finding pages with only the remaining words in the string.

This operator can also exclude a group of words. Take a group of unwanted words in brackets and put a minus in front of them.

Setting up advanced search in Yandex

Some Yandex functions that refine your search are built into a convenient dialog form. Let's get to know her better.

1. Includes regional binding. You can find information for a specific locality.

2. In this line, you can enter the site on which you want to search.

3. Set the type of file to be found. This can be not only a web page, but also PDF, DOC, TXT, XLS and files to open in Open Office.

4. Enable search only for those documents that are written in the selected language.

5. You can filter the results by update date. For a more precise search, a line is offered in which you can enter the start and end date of the creation (update) of the document.

Every day we search for something on Google. I probably google something 200 times a day. I check any information, learn something new, instantly find the answer to my question. There was a question - I drove it into the search line - I got the result. What could be easier? But sometimes there are difficulties in finding specific information. A few tricks will help you always find what you are looking for.

We have already written about the secrets of Google search more than once. I decided to check out what tricks are still working and refresh your memory a bit.

Search for a specific phrase

Sometimes it is necessary to find a phrase exactly in the form in which we enter it. For example, when we are looking for the lyrics of a song, but we know only one phrase from it. In this case, you need to enclose this phrase in quotation marks.

Search by specific site

Google is a great search engine. And often it is better than the built-in search on sites. That is why it is more rational to use Google to search for information on a website. To do this, enter site:lenta.ru Putin made.

Finding words in text

If you need all the words of the query to be in the text of the results found, type in front of it allintext:.

If one query word should be in the body and the rest anywhere on the page, including the title or URL, precede the word intext:, and write the rest before that.

Search for words in the title

If you want all query words to be in the title, use the phrase allintitle:.

If only part of the request should be in the header, and the rest - elsewhere in the document or page, put title:.

Searching for words in a URL

To find pages that have your query in their URL, type allinurl:.

Search news for a specific location

If you need news on a specific topic from a specific location, use location: to search Google News.

Search with some number of missing words

You need to find a sentence in a document or article, but you only remember the words at the beginning and at the end. Enter your query and indicate the approximate number of words between the words you remember. It looks like this: "Near the seaside AROUND (5) is an oak tree."

Search if you forgot a word or number

Forgot a word from a saying, song, quote? No problem. Google will still help you find it. Put an asterisk (*) in place of the forgotten word.

Search for sites that link to the site you are interested in

This item is useful for blog or website owners. If you are wondering who is linking to your site or even to a particular page, then just enter link:website.

Exclude results with unwanted word

Let's imagine a situation. You have decided to go on vacation to the islands. And you don't want to go to the Maldives at all. To prevent Google from showing them in search results, you just need to enter "Island holidays - Maldives". That is, put a minus before the word Maldives.

You want to find all your competitors. Or you really like the site, but there is not enough material on it, and you want more and more. Enter related:lenta.ru and enjoy the result.

Search "either-or"

There are situations when you need to find information about two people at once. For example, you want to laugh at Vova, but have not decided which one - Zelensky or something else. It is enough to enter "Vladimir Zelensky | Zhirinovsky", and you will get the result you need. Instead of the symbol "|" you can enter English OR.

Finding different words in the same sentence

To find relationships between objects, or just to look for mentions of two individuals together, you can use the "&" symbol. Example: Freud & Jung.

Search by synonyms

If you're as lazy as I am, then you don't have the patience to google multiple times for different synonyms for the same word. For example, cheap firewood. The "~" character can make your life a lot easier. We write “~cheap firewood” and get results for the words “cheap”, “inexpensive”, “affordable” and so on.

Search in a specific range of numbers

A very useful Google search secret if you need to find, for example, events that happened in certain years, or prices in a certain range. Just put two dots between the numbers. Google will search in this range.

Search for files of a specific format

If you need to find some document or just a file of a certain format, Google can help you here too. Just add at the end of your request filetype:doc and instead doc substitute the format you need.

10 more useful features

1. Google can work as a good calculator. To do this, simply enter the desired operation in the search box.

2. If you want to know the meaning of a word, and not just look at pages on the topic, add to the word define or "meaning".

3. You can use the search engine as a unit and currency converter. To call the converter, type a query with a translation, for example, "centimeters to meters."

4. With Google, you can check the weather and time without having to go to websites. Type in the queries “weather “city of interest””, “time “city of interest””.

5. To view the results and schedule of matches of a sports team, simply type its name in the search engine.

6. To translate a word into any language, write in the search bar "translate the "desired word" into English (any other) language".

7. For the query "sunrise" city of interest "" Google shows the time of sunrise and sunset (for the latter - the corresponding query).

8. cache:site.com- sometimes a very helpful function of searching for a site in the Google cache. For example, when newsmen delete news. They can be read thanks to Google.

9. If you enter a flight number in the search box, Google gives you full information about it.

10. To see a table with quotes for a specific company, simply enter the query “stocks of the company of interest”, for example, “Apple stocks”.

If you have your own ways to use Google more effectively and find the information you need faster, share your tips in the comments to this article.

When migrating from Windows Vista, search in Windows 7 only becomes more convenient and does not contain any special surprises. The same can't be said for many Windows XP users who are just discovering their day-to-day work on the system with the convenience of instant search. Searching in Windows 7 is really very easy. But, as with any search, the goal is to find what you need, and sometimes there are difficulties with this. With this article, I begin a story about how search works in Windows 7, how to set it up, how to search, and most importantly, how to find.

How search works

You have most likely heard of an index - a set of files that contain a variety of information about the files and documents stored on the disk. When you use the search, it is the index files that allow you to quickly display the results. Various properties of files get into the index, and this is not only the path, name or size. For example, MP3 files have all tags indexed - from author to bitrate. For office documents, data is indexed, which can be seen in the file properties on the tab in detail, document content, and so on. If this kind of search is new to you, I recommend reading a couple of help articles to get an introduction to searching. Minimize all windows, press F1 and in the field Help search enter... Search.

Indexing happens all the time - if you add, delete or change a file in a folder, it will be immediately reflected in the index.

The screenshot shows the locations that are indexed by default. Therefore, if you store your documents somewhere in F:\Documents, they will not be indexed and will not be found by a quick search - they must be added to the index separately. Search settings will be discussed below.

Search and indexing settings

To be honest, the default search settings are quite good, and most users do not need to change anything in them, especially if documents and files are stored in standard folders. To configure settings, open the Start menu and type search options into the search box.

This is how casually we used one of the search options Windows 7- quick access to control panel items from the start menu.

Change search options for files and folders

I will not duplicate the parameters that are perfectly visible in the screenshot.

Pay attention to the following points:

by default search in folder searches in all subfolders

in non-indexed places, only filenames are searched, and compressed files are ignored

you can use language search, i.e. write search queries in a looser language - for example, last week's video (a lot of unexpected results will be mixed in here, especially in localized versions)

Indexing Options and Windows Search Services

Here you can configure many more options. To add folders to the index, click Change.

The Windows and Program Files folders are not accidentally excluded from the search - they will greatly increase the size of the index, and there will be little practical use. Programs can already be found by searching in the Start menu - after all, the main menu is indexed by default.

Clicking Additionally, you have access to two groups of settings:

indexing technical parameters

indexing options for file types

In the first one, you can add encrypted files to the index, rebuild the index (which may be necessary in case of problems), and set a new location for it.

For file type (extension) you can:

include or exclude it from the index

determine whether only properties or also content will be indexed

add new extension

For example, if suddenly your instant messaging client saves its history in text files with a LOG extension, or you just need to parse the logs, their content will not be indexed by default. But you can easily customize the search - just type log on the keyboard to move through the list of extensions and enable search by content.

How to search

When starting a search, it is desirable to immediately imagine whether the search object is included in the index. As I said above, the index covers the user's profile - libraries, files, etc. Here you can find the files you need relatively easily.

But if you open the main search window and expect to find something in the Program Files or Windows folder, you may even get the impression that "the search does not find anything" - after all, only the results from the index are displayed. We'll talk about searching in non-indexed places later, but now we'll look at general ways to search in Windows 7. You can search:

from the start menu

in the main search box

in libraries

in other explorer windows - folders, "Open" and "Save As" dialogs

Start menu search

When you search from the Start menu, the search results show not only files and documents, but also programs and Control Panel items. Now you can safely part with the habit of the times of Windows XP - careful sorting of applications in the menu Programs. It is enough to enter the first few letters of the program name to find it. This is much more convenient, especially if you have many programs installed.

Advice. If you are using portable applications, simply add their shortcuts to the %appdata%\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs folder (you can create a subfolder for them). In the search results, they will appear in a group Programs.

In Windows 7, search results in the Start menu are very conveniently grouped, and the number of results in each group is immediately visible - this is an improvement over Windows Vista. As you can see in the screenshot, searching for the word word finds not only Microsoft Word and WordPad applications, but also offers results in other groups.

The Start menu displays multiple results for each group, and clicking on the group's name opens a search box with all search results in the group.

Start menu search is good when you have an idea about the name of the file or its contents - the first 5 - 10 results are immediately visible, and you don't have to go far. In addition, the Start menu is indispensable for quick access to programs and control panel items using search.

Main search box

An empty search box can be opened by pressing a keyboard shortcut WIN+F. It, in my opinion, has somewhat lost its meaning, since it no longer contains advanced file search capabilities. Searching in the windows of the explorer practically forces it out of the system. It seems to me that links to help on using the search or a link to this article could brighten up its dull look.

However, the main search window still carries a payload. It opens with search results by typing a query in the Start menu and clicking on the name of a group of search results, or by See other results right above the search field.

Libraries

Now I will explain why I separated the search in libraries and other explorer windows. Pay attention to how search results are displayed in the library. They correspond to the type of files in it and are very well perceived visually. For example, music files display album art, large song title, size, and "music" options for ordering results. This is a property of all libraries, which confirms the thesis - the possibilities of Windows 7 are best used together. In this case, it is a search in libraries, which has other advantages.

Here's what a search for a simple query in the library will offer Music.

While in File Explorer, you can sort your search results by available file properties. The default display order is top scores, but, for example, you can organize music files by album or genre. This feature is available alongside Explorer's traditional sorting and grouping features (although the latter may be new to Windows XP migrants).

In this case, the results will display several songs from each album. You can see all the songs in the album, and then "fold" it if the one you need is not there.

If you did not find the desired file in the current folder, you can search again:

Other Explorer windows

In folders and libraries, the search field is the same as in the main window. But we must not forget that the same opportunity is in the "Open" and "Save as" windows, which are used even by those who prefer alternative file managers.

Searching in folders is more convenient when you know the approximate location of the file or document - in this case, you will not get lost in the results. In addition, this method is useful when it is known for sure that the file is not included in the index. Finally, in the Open and Save As windows, you can quickly filter the contents of a folder using search.

I'm sure you've already tried simple search queries and maybe they've worked out for you. However, sooner or later you will need to find the file, and a simple query won't help. Next, I'll show you how to use the advanced search features of Windows 7 to find the files you need.

What's New in Windows 7 Advanced Search

To master the search, of course, you need to practice using its capabilities. In the Windows 7 Search articles, I'll give you some examples that you can easily replicate on your own.

If you're migrating from Windows XP, everything about Windows 7 will be new to you. Compared to Windows Vista in Windows 7 externally:

have changed search filters

Search filters

When the name of the file or the subject of the document is approximately known, it is usually not difficult to find the desired file - just enter a partial or full query into the Start menu search. But this information is not always stored in the RAM of the brain, and it is simply often necessary to set special search conditions - the size, date of modification or the author of the file. Windows XP had a search assistant, Windows Vista had filters.

At first glance, there is nothing visually striking in Windows 7. In fact, the filters have not gone away - they just become visible when you place the cursor in the search field.

Advice. To see more filters, expand the search field - place the cursor on the separator between the field and the address bar and drag to the left.

In the screenshot you see the standard set of filters in the main search window.

Hints

Your search queries are remembered if they were entered:

to the search box

in explorer folder or library

in the start menu (assuming you navigated to the results and not just opened the file)

These prompts annoy some users and they tend to turn them off immediately. And, in my opinion, they do it in vain. Tips remember not only search queries as such, but also filters searches you specified, such as the size or modification date of the file. Suggestions are very handy if you want to use the full power of Windows 7 search. It's easy to change an old term to fit the current query, and it's faster than typing it all over again. And you can always delete an unnecessary hint - just select it (with the mouse or cursor) and press Delete on the keyboard.

As I said above, the new features of Windows 7 are best shared. The connection of search with libraries is not only in the display of results, but also in the formation of search conditions. In the next part of the article, I will look at:

using filters to search in libraries and mail

search in Internet Explorer 8

search in non-indexed places

search operators

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In the era of digital technologies and high-speed Internet, you can find out any information. In a few minutes we find recipes for a delicious pie or get acquainted with the theory of wave-particle duality.

But often the necessary information has to be sown bit by bit and spend more than one hour on it. site I have collected for you the most effective ways that will help you find precious materials in a couple of clicks.

1. Either one or the other

Sometimes we are not exactly sure that we remembered or heard the necessary information correctly. No problem! Just enter several suitable options through the “|” or English "or" and then select the appropriate result.

2. Search by synonym

As you know, the great and mighty Russian language is rich in synonyms. And sometimes it doesn't work at all. If you need to quickly find sites on a given topic, and not just a specific phrase, put the "~" symbol.

For example, the results of the query "healthy ~food" will help you learn the principles of healthy eating, introduce you to healthy recipes and products, and suggest visiting healthy restaurants.

3. Search within the site

4. Star power

When an insidious memory fails us and hopelessly loses words or numbers from a phrase, the "*" icon comes to the rescue. Just put it in the place of the forgotten fragment and get the desired results.

5. Lots of missing words

But if not one word, but half of the phrase fell out of memory, try writing the first and last word, and between them - AROUND (approximate number of missing words). For example, like this: "I loved you AROUND(7) not quite."

6. Time frame

Sometimes we desperately need to get acquainted with the events that took place in a certain period of time. To do this, add a time frame to the main phrase, written through ellipsis. For example, we want to know what scientific discoveries were made between 1900 and 2000.

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

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

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

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

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

How to make your search query more accurate

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

How to set up a query fix

If a typo was made when typing a request or the wrong keyboard layout was selected, Yandex will determine this. And you can specify whether you want to auto-correct your search term, or just offer a suggestion. To do this, select the required value on the page (the 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 displayed.

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 from the issuance of the page "for adults"

Select the degree of search results cleaning from documents containing profanity and adult content:

moderate filter - sites "for adults" are excluded from the search results, if the request is not explicitly directed to the search for such resources (the mode is enabled by default);

family search - content "for adults" is completely excluded from the search results (even if the request is clearly directed to the search for such resources), as well as sites containing obscene language;

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

Set up 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 visits to sites from search results. This setting allows you to take into account your interests when generating tips and a page with search results.