Spotlight is indexing but what? And why does it want access to the web?

I can see Spotlight is indexing, it spends several hours a day doing this, every day.
Where can i find more details like previous OS X versions? Which drive, how much time left etc.
Console was no help, any suggestions welcome.
Also, with "Spotlight Suggestions" and "Bing Web Searches" disabled in the Spotlight Search Results references, why is the process "Spotlight Web Content" still trying to access the web several times a day? I am not using Spotlight when this happens nor am i trying to preview any files that have web content in them. Most commonly it tries to connect to static.amazon.com on the http port.

In System Preferences > Spotlight > Search Results, if you have "Bookmarks and History" checked, then the "Spotlight Web Content" background process will crawl any web page that you recently visited to index its keywords. Uncheck that to turn it off.

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Hi,
I'm having Safari 4.0.3 crashes on PowerBook G4 running Tiger 10.4.11 -- like everyone else.
Tiger is out dated.
Or is it a Trojan or other malware?
Definably you are a switcher from MS to Apple. You need to know more about the system you running and about Mac general.
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What you talking about?
Because you have something you don't understand your assuming that this the fold of Apple.
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