The advantages and disadvantages of Spotlight are similar to those of Finder.
Open Spotlight from the magnifying glass in the upper right corner of the screen.Using Spotlight is similar to using Finder: You cannot search the files in a specific folder, which in some cases is a big inconvenience – when there are a lot of results, it will be quite difficult for you to find the document you are looking for. However, with Spotlight you cannot narrow the search. The purpose of Spotlight is to be a universal search tool, which always searches throughout the whole system.
Spotlight is a built-in desktop search tool for Mac that searches not only in your files, but also in the history of the visited websites and other sources. The results are not ranked by relevance.You cannot search for word combinations.You cannot see the sentences containing the search terms.You cannot see the text of the found documents without opening them.
You can view a thumbnail of each document found.