My Spotlight is not working! Help pls

hey guys,
my SPOTLIGHT, on the right corner of my desktop, is not working... i just noticed it last night! but days before that it was working just fine... whenever im searching for a document, it does not show any results at all! like before when i type a name, i would see a revolving circle on the side of the spotlight typing box, but now i dont see any, and it doesnt show any results at all.. please help!
Lee

Or the indexing agent (The program that asks around to make the list) is disabled. Easiest way to reactivate it is to go to System Preferences> Spotlight> Privacy. Then add the whole hard drive to Privacy and then remove it. This will cause it to reindex the whole drive.

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