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                      Do You Use It? Spotlight on the Mac

   Adam Engst

   For this week's Do You Use It? poll, we're asking about [1]Spotlight.
   Initially, I thought Spotlight would be an easy question'surely
   everyone turns to it at least occasionally to find things. But as I
   thought about it more, I realized that Spotlight occupies an unusual
   space in macOS. Apple introduced it in Mac OS X Tiger (see '[2]Put a
   Tiger in Your Tank... in 2005,' 28 June 2004) to add metadata-based
   searching to the Mac's previous filename and content searches. Since
   then, Apple has expanded Spotlight's purview, enabling it to launch
   apps, perform calculations and conversions, search inside apps that
   maintain their own databases, and return results from online sources.
   So we have two questions this week: [3]how often do you use Spotlight,
   and what do you use it for?

   For this poll, assume we're talking about the standalone Spotlight
   accessed by clicking the magnifying glass in the menu bar or pressing
   Command-Space, not Finder window searches that are restricted to
   finding files.

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References

   1. https://support.apple.com/guide/mac-help/search-with-spotlight-mchlp1008/mac
   2. https://tidbits.com/2004/06/28/put-a-tiger-in-your-tank-in-2005/
   3. https://talk.tidbits.com/t/do-you-use-it-spotlight-on-the-mac/23189?u=ace
   4. https://talk.tidbits.com/t/do-you-use-it-spotlight-on-the-mac/23189?u=ace

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