Web Search not working in Yosemite Spotlight

Hello,
One of the major features of Yosemite was that Spotlight could directly return web search results. But unfortubnaltly that isn't working for me.
Anyone else facing this issue or has already figured out a work around for this?
Regards,
Kartik Gaje

Go to terminal and enter:
rm -f ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.Spotlight.plist
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