Do You Use It? Spotlight on the Mac

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Originally published at: Do You Use It? Spotlight on the Mac - TidBITS

This week’s Do You Use It? poll asks if you use Spotlight on the Mac and—given the breadth of its capabilities—what you use it for.

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Please post your comments about what you use in the actual poll thread.

Do You Use It? Spotlight on the Mac

The search technology Spotlight has been a fixture on the Mac since 2005, when Apple released it with Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger. Apple has added features over the years, and pressing Command-Space to invoke Spotlight now lets you do far more than search for files on the local drive. For this week’s Do You Use It? poll, I have two questions: how often do you use Spotlight, and what do you use it for? For the purposes of this poll, assume we’re talking about the standalone Spotlight invoked with Comman…