Including Help Files in Spotlight Searches

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in macOS edited January 2014
Spotlight is a big advance, but I have two suggestions for further enhancement.

1. It would be nice to have it search the Help files, particularly the ones that are not resident on the computer but need to be downloaded. Even extending the idea a little, if you still aren't clear after reading the Help page, you might like to explore commentaries, forums and essays on the internet. Sometimes you just want a one-line explanation of how to do it. But sometimes you want to understand what the machine is doing, either out of curiosity or as the basis for developing a work-around to some private problem.



2. It isn't hard to imagine the Spotlight eventually getting crippled by delivering too much information, with the information you want lost in an ocean of information you don't want. So, you can foresee the need to have a navigation within the results of Spotlight, or a search within the search, possibly several layers deep. If you solve this, you might share the solution with Google, which has the same problem.

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    skatmanskatman Posts: 609member
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    It isn't hard to imagine the Spotlight eventually getting crippled by delivering too much information, with the information you want lost in an ocean of information you don't want. So, you can foresee the need to have a navigation within the results of Spotlight, or a search within the search, possibly several layers deep. If you solve this, you might share the solution with Google, which has the same problem.



    I would say that if you reach such a point, it's time for a major cleanup!
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