Knowing everything about the latest events, being prepared for rain, quickly finding a pharmacy and choosing the best seats in the cinema is easy with the universal Yandex application.
Voice assistant. Solve your everyday problems with Alice: she will tell you the weather and traffic jams along the route, advise where to eat or buy groceries, and find anything on the Internet. Alice knows how to not only voice information, but also tell stories and keep up a conversation on any topic.
All NHL matches. Follow the NHL matches of the 19/20 season. Watch daily reviews, goals and highlights for free on Yandex.Ether.
Automatic caller ID*. Enable Caller ID in the main menu of the application and be aware of who is calling, even if the number is not in your phone contacts. The application will find the name of the organization in the Directory or indicate the purpose of the call based on user feedback. (*for iPhone with iOS version 11.0 and higher)
Free movies and TV series. Look in good quality and at a time convenient for you in Yandex.Ether. The service contains more than 5,000 films, TV series and cartoons.
Events in your area. Meet and communicate with your neighbors using the Yandex.District service. Join the community in your area and stay informed about what's happening nearby.
Smart device management. In the Yandex application, you can activate Yandex.Station and control it with your voice using Alice. Alice will hear and follow your commands - dim the lights, turn on the TV, turn up the music. Yandex Smart Home already works with dozens of devices from Philips, Redmond, Samsung and Xiaomi. You can connect your devices by selecting "Devices" in the settings menu.
Weather accurate to the area. See detailed forecast hourly and for the week ahead with detailed information about wind speed, atmospheric pressure and humidity levels.
Main news. Follow events in your region, Russia and other countries, news from politics, economics, science, sports and other areas.
Places nearby. Find your way even in an unfamiliar area: pharmacies, ATMs, restaurants, grocery stores and other organizations are marked on the map with opening hours, contact details and the ability to get directions.
Transport map*. Save time on travel: the nearest buses, trolleybuses and trams are shown directly on the map. Click on a stop and you will see how much time is left until the desired route arrives. (*not available in all cities)
Notifications about important things. Be in the know before others: Yandex will warn you about rain or cold snap, send you news that is gaining popularity, and tell you the traffic situation with a push message.
Exchange rates. Assess the economic situation based on quotes of major currencies, share prices of key companies, stock indices and commodity prices.
Discounts on goods. Plan your purchases more efficiently: Yandex will show discounts in chain supermarkets and help you save on household goods. Information provided by the Edadil service.
Offline search. Remain confident at any communication speed - for many popular queries, Yandex will show the answer even without an Internet connection. You can disable the function in the application settings.
Poster and ticket booking. Look detailed information about the films you are interested in at the cinema and buy tickets to the best seats in the application itself.
Versatility. Try other features: voice and photo search, QR code reading, speed dialing with prompts, popular videos and TV programs.
Yandex. At any time and in any situation.
Yandex.Browser is free and modern browser for a computer with the Turbo loading function for “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, e-mail, viewing traffic jams, entering 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 mobile devices Android instantly opens 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 increased attention to security and 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.
About Turbo modeWhen the Internet is slow, this mode is activated. Allows you to speed up the loading of website pages as quickly as possible, as well as save on traffic. |
About safetyProtect active protection technology is unique in Yandex Browser. Quickly scans downloaded files for possible viruses, protects passwords and encrypts data transmission on public, unsecured networks. |
About smart StringThe line will help the user find out the ruble exchange rate, report traffic jams in the city and much more. And opening sites is as easy as shelling pears, just enter part of the address and the line will offer possible options. |
About synchronizationSynchronization allows the user to open and configure tabs on multiple devices at once, save passwords, favorite places, data and access them from one account. |
You can install Yandex Browser on your computer for free official version follow the link below. It is recommended to set the default to system disk C for stable operation of the application.
Many of us still find ourselves in situations where we need to quickly find important information, but internet access is limited or non-existent. It’s one thing to try to open an entertaining post on a website, and quite another to look for a phone number hotline bank or hospital. Today, for the first time, I will tell Habr readers about how the acceleration of search in the Yandex application has led to the ability to search for important information without the Internet.
But first, you need to understand the main thing: why did we even undertake offline search if the sites from the search results are still inaccessible in the absence of a network?
EDGE search
Yandex's radar traditionally shows people who enter a query, but then leave the page without waiting for it to load due to poor mobile internet. In this situation, we could not influence the overall quality of the network and the loading speed of all sites, but it was worth trying to make at least the search process less painful and save some time. Actually, that’s why this project was originally called EDGE search, i.e. search on slow internet.
There are two ways to speed up your search. First, optimize the web version and the APIs that the application uses as much as possible. And this work is also being done, but even this is not enough. Secondly, you can pre-load onto your device something that will be useful in case of a poor connection. Obviously, it is physically impossible to fit the entire Internet index into a phone. Therefore, it was necessary to go from the local storage of ready-made search results for specific queries. According to what? No one yet knows how to predict a person’s future needs with high accuracy (but we are learning). Therefore, we take popular recurring queries.
When we talk about popular queries, many people imagine a [VKontakte] query and several similar ones. In fact, we have hundreds of thousands of less obvious requests that are regularly repeated in large quantities. And this is already many hundreds of megabytes of results. Moreover, we planned to save not only the search results, but also the hints that appear during the process of entering a query. And here many will ask: why store hints offline, since a person is quite capable of entering a query without them?
When entering queries in the Yandex application, users do not see ordinary search suggestions, but in the form of individual words/pairs of words (i.e. predictive text input). Regular hints cannot be edited: if you need to add a word, you will have to enter the entire query yourself. Hints in the form of words allow you to make edits, cover a much larger number of queries and significantly speed up their entry by a person.
But the main thing is that the tips turned out to be especially useful when working offline. These hints help people phrase their question in a way that most people do, which in turn increases the chance that the answer will be retrieved from the local cache. That is why it was important to save the tips.
Empirically, we selected a certain minimum of search queries (about 150 thousand) and tips, less than which there was no point in storing any more. But the volume of all this luggage was still beyond decent (several hundred megabytes). Even taking into account the fact that only the top 10 results were stored for each query. Something had to be done.
From optimization to offline
We started looking for everything that could be sent “under the knife.” Each result contained not only links to sites, but also favicons and snippets. Favicons are pictures, which means serious savings could be achieved here. The same site can appear in the results for completely different queries, so we initially did not duplicate favicons, but stored them by site. And then we made it so that the probability of saving the favicon is directly proportional to the frequency of the site appearing in search results. In other words, we abandoned most of the favicons, but visually this is not very noticeable.
The more we reduced organic search results in favor of ready-made answers, the closer we came to understanding that our EDGE search was no longer just speeding up the work, but was capable of answering a wide range of questions without any Internet connection at all. Without noticing it, we were already working on offline search. This means that you have to rely on ready-made answers. Having realized this, we began to enrich the database with important facts that previously could not get there due to limited popularity of the request. These results contain only answers, without listing sites.
Using a similar scheme, we copied into the database all the object response cards and all requests for which the object response is available. Offline search cards differ from the originals in the almost complete absence of pictures: we removed them for reasons of economy.
The growth of the fact base required further work on optimization and a data storage structure that would be careful about device resources.
Dictionaries
The database is not downloaded to the device as a whole, but in the form of separate dictionaries, and only with a Wi-Fi connection and only with a sufficient charge level. The division into dictionaries was made for two reasons. Firstly, if the connection breaks during downloading, then during the next attempt only those dictionaries will be downloaded that were not downloaded earlier. Secondly, to further save space, the database is downloaded and stored on the device in a compressed form, but with each request it is not unpacked entirely, but only in the necessary parts.
Each dictionary contains queries starting with certain letters, as well as all the data for search results and hints for these queries. It turned out to be more logical to sort the data before dividing it into dictionaries by the first letters of queries than, for example, by their popularity. Imagine the situation: the first dictionary contains the most popular queries, the second contains slightly less popular ones, and so on. But the popularity of queries often changes, and this will lead to the need to regularly update dictionaries just to move a query from one to another. This costs traffic, energy and time. Therefore, it was important to ensure that when updating the database, queries did not move between dictionaries. Alphabetical order turned out to be a simple and effective solution.
Answers to the same queries may vary in different parts of the country, so for different regions their own dictionaries are formed. Moreover, during short-term visits to another region, the application will not rush to update dictionaries - we have provided scenarios for business trips and tourism.
No matter how hard we try, offline search does not cover all possible queries, but it already helps out on average with every third one. As with any average result, this means that some users encounter offline responses much more often than others. Therefore, we, of course, allow you to completely disable offline search in the settings.
Our team would be interested to know the opinion of Habr readers about this direction and to receive feedback on the work of the beta
Yandex has updated its proprietary application for mobile devices under Android control and iOS. The updated application is designed to become a truly universal assistant in a wide variety of everyday situations.
So, for example, in the Android application you can check where the nearest public transport stops are and what route numbers depart from them (their intervals, etc.). On this moment information about transport is available in more than 50 cities in Russia and abroad.
Great deals nearby – discounts valid in nearby stores (data provided by the Edadil service).
Poster - a list of films showing in cinemas from detailed description, reviews, and so on, while you can buy a ticket for the movie you like directly in the application.
Places nearby - shops, pharmacies, ATMs, gas stations, etc., while the operating hours of organizations are taken into account, i.e., if a particular organization is closed or will close in the very near future, then it will not be on the list, which allows Using the application, it is easy to find a 24-hour or late-night store at a late hour. To any point you can select and construct the most optimal route: on foot, by car or public transport.
Offline mode - will help out when the Internet connection is weak or completely absent (Yandex saves answers to popular search queries, allowing the user to quickly get short information, for example: phone number, address of the organization, etc.). Currently, the offline mode is only available in the iOS app; it will be available on Android later.
Recently, the online store catalog Google Play grew to gigantic proportions. However, such diversity clearly has not made it any easier for users, since finding a truly useful application for their smartphone is becoming increasingly difficult. After all, most programs for Android simply copy more successful competitors or are completely useless software.
There are not too many exceptions, but they still happen. For example, owners mobile phones enjoy using the best Yandex Internet services, as they help solve real problems and do not forget to entertain their customers.
With the advent of this Internet service, another type of accessible public transport has appeared in Russia. After all, now residents of Russian settlements where this application works can order a taxi with one tap of a finger on the screen of a mobile device. In this case, you can choose a car and find out the cost of the trip in advance.
Using the Yandex.Taxi service is very convenient:
- download and open the application on the screen of your Android device;
- allow the program access to geolocation;
- we build a route on the map (indicate the landing place and destination);
- call a taxi from free cars, located nearby;
- choose a convenient payment method;
- place an order;
- We are waiting for the taxi to arrive.
The expected time of arrival of the taxi will be indicated in a red circle on the screen of the mobile gadget. The cost of a trip can be reduced by choosing a car class (economy or comfort), by subscribing to Yandex.Plus services and by activating promotional codes, information about which is in the service menu.
In addition, in the Yandex.Taxi menu you can view your trip history, select new payment methods, save routes, get the most detailed information about tariffs, customize the application using settings and contact support.
It is quite difficult to list all the advantages of Yandex.Taxi, since with the advent of this application the life of Android device owners has become much easier. After all, now they don’t have to deal with rudeness and rudeness in crowded buses, trolleybuses and trams, and they also don’t have to overpay grabber drivers for comfort when traveling by taxi.
Yandex.Health
Russians evaluate the work of this Internet application differently. However, no one denies the fact that with the advent of this service, every resident of the country can receive an online consultation from a qualified doctor, psychiatrist or veterinarian.
In other words, now anyone with a smartphone will be able, within a few minutes, to ask any question on a medical topic to one of the highly qualified and practicing Russian doctors, who will give an answer or recommendation regarding:
- contacting relevant specialists;
- drug and therapeutic treatment;
- preparation for pregnancy and child care;
- women's health;
- analysis transcripts;
- problems with the nervous system;
- problems of a dermatological (skin, nails, hair) and urological nature;
- disruptions in the gastrointestinal tract;
- contraception and venous diseases;
- other medical problems.
You should not expect miracles, since a consultation will never replace a full examination in a clinic or hospital. However, consultation with a highly qualified specialist clearly does not hurt for early diagnosis and prevention of serious diseases.
Using the services of the Yandex.Health service is not difficult. You just need to download the application to your smartphone, go into the program (a stable Internet connection is required) and select the appropriate specialist, and then ask him a question.
Attention! All consultations in Yandex.Health are paid (from 99 rubles). You can save on communicating with doctors through subscriptions and promotions (menus).
Yandex.Metro
Another useful application from the domestic “search engine”. Owners of smartphones who downloaded to their mobile gadgets Yandex.Metro program will receive full information in 14 subways located in Russia and other CIS countries.
Each metro has its own map, which allows users to instantly find out all the latest information about stations and build the optimal route. After all, the application will prompt you at the first request:
- which stations are closed for repairs;
- When do metro stations open and close?
- how to get to any train station, airport or other facility;
- how to build the perfect route;
- which car should you sit in to get to the station faster;
- Which exit at the station is best to use in order to be closest to your destination.
Yandex.Fines
The main task of this application from Yandex is to enable Russians to check online for fines from the traffic police and city services and pay off their debt using bank card or electronic wallets.
The program developers promise Android device owners that they will not only receive detailed information about fines using their driver's license number and car registration certificate, but will also be able to instantly pay their bills at a discount, if applicable.
Yandex.Conversation
This application will help those people who often or sometimes communicate with citizens who have hearing problems. Each phrase during such a conversation is converted into a text message, which is then displayed on the smartphone screen. The program also works in the opposite direction, voicing text messages, which were typed manually.
Each of these applications can be really useful for owners mobile Android devices. Try installing these programs on your smartphone to see for yourself their merits.