On my mid 2012 Macbook Air, doing a Spotlight search for Starbucks tells me about a local Starbucks, plus the web results and all the rest, for what that's worth. > On Oct 21, 2014, at 1:48 PM, 'Jim Fettgather' via MacVisionaries > <macvisionaries@googlegroups.com> wrote: > > Another completely strange occurrence, I now just updated a 2014 Macbook Air > to Yosemite, and spotlight searches for Starbucks turns up everything, Bing, > Wikipedia, map results, everything you would expect. > The computer on which there were no results whatsoever was a 2012 Mac Mini. > Very interesting. > > > From: Tim Kilburn <mailto:kilbu...@me.com> > Sent: Tuesday, October 21, 2014 10:09 AM > To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com <mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com> > Subject: Re: Yosemite: Continuing Curiosities in Spotlight Search > > Hi, > > Hmmm. I did the same as you entering “Starbucks” into my Entry field. The > first result was your message, then I could arrow down through various other > references to Starbucks that it found. Interestingly enough, I had more than > a dozen references to Starbucks in various eMails and no others on my > computer. Another interesting thing is that it did not display any Internet > or Wikipedia results, which is likely false as I would venture to say that > Starbucks should show up quite a bit around the Net. Probably some setting I > need to manipulate. > > Later… > > Tim Kilburn > Fort McMurray, AB Canada > >> On Oct 21, 2014, at 7:51 AM, 'Jim Fettgather' via MacVisionaries >> <macvisionaries@googlegroups.com <mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com>> >> wrote: >> >> According to documentation, performing a search term is Spotlight should >> bring up Wikipedia entries, map data, possible dictionary definitions, and a >> host of results. >> >> I was able to verify that typing in the term Starbucks into Spotlight >> brought no results, and the message appeared visually on the screen as well: >> No results. >> >> All checkboxes are checked in all 21 categories in Spotlight preferences, >> disk permissions have been performed, and so on, >> >> so I’m really curious as to why some terms bring up absolutely no results. >> This does not appear to be an accessibility issue, just some kind of >> performance issue or quirk. >> Thanks for any thoughts. >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "MacVisionaries" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com >> <mailto:macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com>. >> To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com >> <mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com>. >> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries >> <http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries>. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout >> <https://groups.google.com/d/optout>. > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > <mailto:macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com>. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com > <mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com>. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries > <http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries>. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout > <https://groups.google.com/d/optout>. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > <mailto:macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com>. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com > <mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com>. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries > <http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries>. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout > <https://groups.google.com/d/optout>.
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