Search settings

Searching on websites with OpenSearch

You can use the SmartBox to search on websites that support OpenSearch (such as wikipedia.org): To do this:

1. Enter the site's name or address in the SmartBox. If the site supports OpenSearch, you'll see To search in [site name], press Tab appear on the right.

2. Press Tab. You will see the site name appear on an icon in the left part of the SmartBox.

3. Enter a search query.

4. Press Enter.

To exit OpenSearch, click on the right side of the SmartBox.

How to copy an URL when searching sites with Open Search

When searching a site with support for OpenSearch, the SmartBox displays the query text instead of the address of the open page. To see the page address, click the SmartBox and then the Copy button that appears.

If you want to always see the page address in the SmartBox:

1. Click  → Settings → General settings.

2. Under Search, deselect Show search queries in SmartBox when searching a site.

Note

You can enable or disable query display in the SmartBox only when the Interface → SmartBox → Use "domain > title" format for page addresses option is enabled.

Change the search engine

1. Right-click the SmartBox.

2. In the context menu, select Manage search engines...

3. On the Search engine settings page, go to the Default search engine section and select the search engine from the list.

If the desired search engine isn't in the list, specify it manually:

1. In the upper-right corner of the screen, click Add.

2. In the window that opens, fill in the fields:

   • Name: enter the name of the search engine (for example, bing);

   • Keyword: enter the search engine address (such as bing.com)

   • Link with the %s parameter instead of a query (for example, http://bing.com/?q=%s).

3. Click Add.

4. Hover your mouse over the search engine you entered and click Make default.

What do I do if a webpage doesn't open?

If Yandex Browser can't open the page, it offers possible solutions:

• If you entered the page address incorrectly, Yandex Browser will give you links to existing pages with similar addresses, or suggest searching for it in Yandex.
• If the page existed but was recently removed, you can view its copy cached by Yandex.
• If there were problems on the server side, you can view a cached copy of the page or search for it on Yandex.
• If a Yandex service returned a 404 error (page not found), write to us.

How do I open a cached website?

To see a link to a cached website, click to the right of the site address.

Note

To save the copy of a site, open it, then click  → Save in the page menu. Choose the file destination and format (HTML or PDF).

Keyboard shortcuts and mouse gestures for managing the SmartBox

Hold down the right mouse button to perform gestures. Then release the button after you complete the gesture.

Learn more

• Keyboard shortcuts

• Mouse gestures

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