Spotlight safari first result

Nice find, did you try this???

tristinDLC

·

2 mo. ago

Open up Terminal and copy and paste this in:

defaults write com.apple.spotlight orderedItems -array \
	'{"enabled" = 1;"name" = "APPLICATIONS";}' \
	'{"enabled" = 1;"name" = "SYSTEM_PREFS";}' \
	'{"enabled" = 1;"name" = "DIRECTORIES";}' \
	'{"enabled" = 1;"name" = "PDF";}' \
	'{"enabled" = 1;"name" = "FONTS";}' \
	'{"enabled" = 0;"name" = "DOCUMENTS";}' \
	'{"enabled" = 0;"name" = "MESSAGES";}' \
	'{"enabled" = 0;"name" = "CONTACT";}' \
	'{"enabled" = 0;"name" = "EVENT_TODO";}' \
	'{"enabled" = 0;"name" = "IMAGES";}' \
	'{"enabled" = 0;"name" = "BOOKMARKS";}' \
	'{"enabled" = 0;"name" = "MUSIC";}' \
	'{"enabled" = 0;"name" = "MOVIES";}' \
	'{"enabled" = 0;"name" = "PRESENTATIONS";}' \
	'{"enabled" = 0;"name" = "SPREADSHEETS";}' \
	'{"enabled" = 0;"name" = "SOURCE";}' \
	'{"enabled" = 0;"name" = "MENU_DEFINITION";}' \
	'{"enabled" = 0;"name" = "MENU_OTHER";}' \
	'{"enabled" = 0;"name" = "MENU_CONVERSION";}' \
	'{"enabled" = 0;"name" = "MENU_EXPRESSION";}' \
	'{"enabled" = 0;"name" = "MENU_WEBSEARCH";}' \
	'{"enabled" = 0;"name" = "MENU_SPOTLIGHT_SUGGESTIONS";}'    

You can rearrange that list as whatever is closer to the top takes a higher search priority for your search results. Any line that has "enabled" = 1 means that it is ON. Any line that has "enabled" = 0 means that it is OFF. So ensure that MENU_WEBSEARCH is set to 0.

Feel free to enable or disable any other section you don't wish Spotlight to look for results in.

File is located...

/Users/YourUserName/Library/Preferences/com.apple.Spotlight.plist

Spotlight understands certain query keywords that help narrow your search. If you typed the following, your top choice would be your music, and not a Safari link:

kind:music name:fragil

As an example of this, I have Leslie Feist's song 1 2 3 4 on my Mac as a .mp3. The following two different Spotlight queries show it as a top search result:

kind:music name:1 2 3 4
name:"1 2 3 4"

You will never see me use some hack posted on the Internet to game Spotlight, and one consequence might be destroying the Spotlight plist which will really cause a bad day.

Even something as simple as the following gets the music as the first result:

author:feist



In Sys Prefs>Spotlight>Search Results, what all is checked?

I'm not sure, but I think it has the strange name of Spotlight Suggestions or something like that.