Spotlight can't find apps

After upgrading to Lion, when I search for apps i get no hits. In sl this was no problem. Is this change intended to drive us towards using launch pad instead?

Hi All!
Thanks for answering, all of you. I had applications selected, and when I tried to exclude my drive in the privay settings, I got "unknown error" and trying to follow some advice from others doing the same in terminal, I got error -400, No index.
A reboot solved it, possibly in combination with repairing permissions on the drive. Now I'm happy again

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