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By Jason Snell for Macworld

20 years later, Spotlight returns to the spotlight

Screenshot of a computer application with a blue banner on the left reading 'Spotlight' and 'Find Anything, Anywhere. Fast.' On the right, a search bar displays 'Yosemite' with a list of results.

Twenty years ago, Mac OS X Tiger introduced us to a search feature that would stand the test of time: Spotlight. And while at the time I found myself ambivalent about its many quirks, some of which were maddening, with the benefit of hindsight, it’s hard not to be impressed by how far Spotlight has come.

Almost every year, Apple has made Spotlight a little better, and macOS Tahoe is its biggest and most impressive upgrade ever. So let’s celebrate Spotlight for what it was, what it is, and what it’s about to become.

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