How to use Spotlight in Yosemite to search for files, apps, web info, and more<article>
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Spotlight, Apple's search technology, has been available on Macs since Mac OS X 10.4, back in 2005. For many years it remained relatively stable, offering no new features. But with OS X Yosemite, Apple added a slew of new search results to Spotlight.</p><p>
If you use Spotlight, you may only invoke it to search for, say, contacts or emails, or the occasional file. But Spotlight can search for much more: it can search the web, find information on Wikipedia, convert pounds to grams (or dollars), define words, and more.</p><p>
It's a good time for a Spotlight refresher course, and in this and a couple of upcoming articles, I'll look at searching with Spotlight on OS X, covering the basics first and then explaining how to use Spotlight for power searching.</p><p class="jumpTag"><a href="/article/2919029/how-to-use-spotlight-in-yosemite-to-search-for-files-apps-web-info-and-more.html#jump">To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here[/url]</p></section></article>
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How to use Spotlight in Yosemite to search for files, apps, web info, and more
