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Mar 5, 2016 4:16 PM in response to 808armadaby sw6lee,Yes it's similar, but as you can see, you also don't have "search on web" or something similar. I used to be able to do this on past OS X. From what I can see on google, others are having the same problem on yosemite, so I think it was in mavericks. I have since then stopped using spotlight to search on google quickly because it's not possible now. But I'm wondering if there is a fix because it is strange that apple would remove this feature.
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Mar 5, 2016 4:25 PM in response to sw6leeby 808armada,Agreed. The "Suggested Website" feature is pretty useless. 3rd party apps like "Alfred" would be an alternative if you use that feature a lot. Others have submitted a bug report asking for the feature to be available again. I'm sure it has to do something with the "war" between Google search and Apple.
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Mar 5, 2016 4:29 PM in response to 808armadaby sw6lee,Hmm that kind of makes sense. But I read some news about google paying apple a very large amount of money some time ago to keep google as default search engine on iOS, so I don't know why we can't do this google search from spotlight. Maybe apple wants even more money for this lol
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Mar 8, 2016 4:27 PM in response to sw6leeby balsa2,It may depend on your search history in Safari, (mine in this case)
a Spotlight search for Wikipedia :
will open the Wikipedia page using Safari, or your preferred browser.
Also, you still have System Preferences > Shortcuts > Services > Search With Google :
where you can Search with Google, on your highlighted word :




