Website searches in Spotlight

Hello,
I found out that I see websites I visited when I search things in Finder...
I wondered if they occupy space on my Memory and if I can turn that off. Not only that they become invisible but that they cant be find local on my computer
thanks
thomas

Ryan,
The biggest "problem" is that nobody except Apple is sure that this is supposed to work. By your description of what you have discovered and what you have tried, I see that we have been down the same path. Everything seems to indicate that it should be possible to query in Spotlight for terms that occur in the comments that you assign to photos in iPhoto. Like you, I recall that it did indeed work ... with iPhoto 08 and with Leopard. Bruce Webster, the developer of iPhoto Library Manager, once told me that the feature is "flaky," and that he has never figured out what breaks it. I have reported the problem as a bug to Apple but have received not reply. I had hoped that iPhoto 09 would fix the problem, but, as we have both discovered, it does not.
It sure would be nice if Apple either confirmed that they know about this problem or stated that Spotlight isn't supposed to index iPhoto photos.
Richard

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