Spotlight Gets Spinning Ball

I'm getting the endless spinning ball when I attempt a Spotlight search. Also happened when I tried to open Time and Date in Preferences and occasionally happens at other rendom times.
Any ideas. Thanks

Then try rebuilding the Spotlight database. The simplest way is to go to the Spotlight System Preference, drag your hard disk into the Privacy section, quit System preferences then go back and remove your hard disk from Privacy.

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