Can't get spotlight suggestion to work

It's strange not to get spotlight suggestion to work on my macbook. It's not return the search result from the internet such as wikipedia definition, or other internet related search.
Is there any additional settings to make this work?

Yup, all items has been checked, i have also moved the spotlight suggestion to the top, but nothing showed up for example for wikipedia search.
some thread suggested to do this way "SystemPreferences -> Privacy: Tick Safari and further click on Details and tick Spotlight suggestions." but then i can't find out the safari option there nor the sportlight suggestions?

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