New Spotlight not working on El Capitan

this helped ....thx

I feel the same. El Capitan has been El Crap on my MBP. Slow and dysfunctional.

Brilliant! Instant fix! I was getting zero results from spotlight after reboot. Just a prompt field that did nothing when entering data. After applying the two commands it worked right away.

Perfect! It now works as it should! Weird solution, but easy enough. I copied the whole Macintosh HD drive in and Spotlight now let's me search locally in UK. Many thanks. :)

Yes, it looks like the feature is available only for few countries 😟. Apple is now days not ontrack with its competitor.

I have fixed mine with:

sudo mdutil -Ea

sudo mdutil -ai off

sudo mdutil -ai on

Had same problem. Spotlight lit nothing. Changed Region in System Preferences from United States to United States (Computer). Now spotting everything.