Spotlight And Mail: Links Not Seen?

Hello everybody,
I hope I am not making a fool of myself, but there it is: On my computer at least, Spotlight does not see URLs in links.
If a link in an email is, say, "http://www.something.com/apicture.jpg", then I cannot find "apicture" with Spotlight.
Is this Spotlight's usual behaviour?
Thank you guys for jumping in...
Roger The Photographer aka RTP

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I just had a look at EasyFind. I would use it only in such cases where Spotlight doesn't yield the result I expect. Here are the reasons why:
• EasyFind does no indexing. Furthermore, the ReadMe file says that this is a good thing, which is wrong. True, indexing takes some time... the first time or when you rebuild for one reason or another - but this is not frequent.
• Because of the absence of indexing, EasyFind is slow *on each search*. Painfully slow, even on my Mac Pro 2008 with 10 GB RAM and all the frills. I bought this expensive machine for fast results, after all...
• EasyFind has no Help menu. Spotlight, even if imperfect, is fully described in the Finder.
• The Preferences dialog of EasyFind is so bizarre that I did not know what to do with it at first: No OSX buttons at the top, no OK or Cancel buttons, nothing but a rectangle. I tried Escape, and poof! It went away.
• Searching in my emails for a given string was both slow and next to useless: 45 results, OK. But I get only a xxxxx.emlx identification. I have no idea about what that is unless I double-click and open it. Slower than slow.
I admit that when I must find something that Spotlight overlooks for one reason or another, EasyFind is really useful. But Spotlight, with its ease of use and lightning fast searches, wins by a wide margin... for what it looks for.
RTP
PS: EasyFind's ReadMe file states that Spotlight does not search for sentences. This is not true.
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