Why does Spotlight find things immediately but Finder takes forever?

Can someone explain why you type in something in Spotlight and poof it's there immediately but the Finder takes forever and a day?

By "Finder", you mean Command-F in the Finder? That is just a different interface for Spotlight -- it uses the same index. There is no reason why it would ever be less up-to-date then a Spotlight menu search. As for speed of the search, I cannot reproduce your experience. A Command-F Finder search usually finds what I am looking for before I can finish typing the keyword. I am on Leopard now, where Spotlight is stunningly fast. But I fired up my Blue&White G3 a little while ago and confirmed that, even there, a Finder search is much faster than my clumsy typing.

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