Finder Find function / Spotlight not working

hello. After a complete reinstallation of my computer and a migration of everything migratable from a backup, both the cmd-f function from within finder and Spotlight are severely not functioning. It's not, as one might expect, that they take long time for their search—they are very quick. But they don't find anything. Like, they find 4 files with a .indd file extension, while in fact there are at least 2000 of them on my machine. Any idea?
thanks a lot

Hi nikolai:
Try reindexing the hard drive:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=301562
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