Spotlight not searching on Bing

Hello,
I just installed Yosemite on my rMBP and i was trying to figure out how to make the spotlight search things for me on the internet via Bing. When they presented the OS, if i remember correctly, they made a search for the keyword "Yosemite" and the spotlight returned a Wikipedia page with infos about "Yosemite". Well, i have everything ticked (including searches on Bing) but if i search for "Yosemite" or anything else i won't get the web search response.
Also i found a bug, if you switch to less transparency mode, the icons that appear on the screen when you lower/increase brightness/volume have some black corners (basically the images are not displayed properly).
Thanks

Go to the System/Spotlight preference pane and in the Search Results pane check the Bing Web Searches checkbox.

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