Spotlight regular expression shows twitter and movie suggestion

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This is a really bizarre thing... but here goes. I was using Spotlight as a temporary copy/paste scratch pad so that I didn't have to have a TextEdit window open. I am working on a regular expression (code), and pasted it into Spotlight for quick side-by-side comparison to something I found on StackOverflow.

This is what Spotlight came up with for suggestions:

regex Spotlight madness

It links to Dave Rutledge's Twitter and Axwell Ingrosso's Ibiza (which is not actually a link to a page). What is going on behind the scenes for Spotlight to pull up such specific, yet bizarre results in the quick preview?

OS X version is 10.12.6 if it matters.

Chris Cirefice

Posted 2017-08-07T16:44:40.223

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Answers

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Go to your system preferences then click on spotlight icon in system preferences and uncheck other, bookmarks & history. Done.

Sayan

Posted 2017-08-07T16:44:40.223

Reputation: 277

What question are you answering? The question I'm reading seems to be asking to explain a behavior; it's not asking for any specific different behavior. – Don Hatch – 2018-04-28T03:51:01.267

@DonHatch If the user follows this steps then these strange things won't appear anymore cause if this options are enabled then spotlight indexes everything on/off the mac and shows it on your spotlight search – Sayan – 2018-04-28T05:57:48.337