My spotlight search only in web!!?

excuse me
spotlight will only go to the web to search. I have changed the preferences to both on and off and it is not responding.
please help me

i found my problem
all of friends
if you have this problem:
Go to the Spotlight Privacy tab. Select "Macintosh HD" from the privacy list and remove it
This is a simple way to force Spotlight to re-index your system

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http://www.newslink.com/.spotlight
Apple's documentation says only that "you can customize the template.spotlight file" but that's it. Zip, zero, zilch, nada, as far as how to configure it or what you can configure. So I'm left with very cryptic popup menus including:
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Besides the (errh) strong feelings and wording:
*Same here.*
My WebServer directory with a lot of PDF files simply makes Apache crash:
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The article below may be able to help you with this issue.
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iOS: Understanding Spotlight Search
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht3636
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