Spotlight (dataprogram)

Spotlight - system-wide desktop search feature of Apple's OS X operating system. This software is the 579^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of software and the 347^th most popular software in Norwegian Wikipedia. Article “Spotlight (dataprogram)” in Norwegian Wikipedia has 1 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025).

This article has the best quality in English Wikipedia. Also, this article is the most popular in that (Norwegian) language version.

Since the creation of article “Spotlight (dataprogram)”, its content was written by 18 registered users of Norwegian Wikipedia and edited by 518 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

Spotlight is on the 347^th place in local ranking of software in Norwegian Wikipedia and on the 579^th place in global ranking of software in all the time.

The article is cited 3 times in Norwegian Wikipedia and cited 2293 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Norwegian): #2992 in August 2017
• Global: #35546 in August 2005

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Norwegian): #103512 in June 2025
• Global: #91139 in June 2008

There are 16 language versions for this article in the WikiRank database (of the considered 55 Wikipedia language editions).

The quality and popularity assessment was based on Wikipédia dumps from July 1, 2025 (including revision history and pageviews for previous years).

The table below shows the language versions of the article with the highest quality.

#	Language	Quality grade	Quality score
1	English (en) Spotlight (Apple)		45.6494
2	German (de) Spotlight (Software)		40.3001
3	Portuguese (pt) Spotlight (software)		28.6752
4	Russian (ru) Поиск (Apple)		25.9047
5	Ukrainian (uk) Spotlight		17.1638
6	Chinese (zh) Spotlight (應用程式)		15.3833
7	Korean (ko) 스포트라이트 (소프트웨어)		13.0534
8	Spanish (es) Spotlight (informática)		12.6173
9	Italian (it) Spotlight (software)		8.4357
10	Polish (pl) Spotlight (oprogramowanie)		6.4478

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The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

The most popular language versions of the article "Spotlight (dataprogram)" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Spotlight (Apple)		1 076 702
2	Russian (ru) Поиск (Apple)		169 937
3	Japanese (ja) Spotlight (Apple)		138 962
4	German (de) Spotlight (Software)		108 804
5	Italian (it) Spotlight (software)		35 515
6	Dutch (nl) Spotlight (software)		25 750
7	Portuguese (pt) Spotlight (software)		23 086
8	Spanish (es) Spotlight (informática)		21 306
9	French (fr) Spotlight (moteur de recherche)		14 938
10	Chinese (zh) Spotlight (應用程式)		13 118

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

The most popular language versions of the article "Spotlight (dataprogram)" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Spotlight (Apple)		2 338
2	Chinese (zh) Spotlight (應用程式)		243
3	Russian (ru) Поиск (Apple)		206
4	German (de) Spotlight (Software)		184
5	French (fr) Spotlight (moteur de recherche)		149
6	Japanese (ja) Spotlight (Apple)		112
7	Spanish (es) Spotlight (informática)		68
8	Italian (it) Spotlight (software)		56
9	Ukrainian (uk) Spotlight		39
10	Swedish (sv) Spotlight (datorprogram)		38

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

Language versions of the article "Spotlight (dataprogram)" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Spotlight (Apple)		154
2	German (de) Spotlight (Software)		66
3	Italian (it) Spotlight (software)		53
4	French (fr) Spotlight (moteur de recherche)		50
5	Japanese (ja) Spotlight (Apple)		29
6	Russian (ru) Поиск (Apple)		27
7	Chinese (zh) Spotlight (應用程式)		26
8	Spanish (es) Spotlight (informática)		24
9	Norwegian (no) Spotlight (dataprogram)		18
10	Dutch (nl) Spotlight (software)		17

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

Language versions of the article "Spotlight (dataprogram)" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Spotlight (Apple)		1
2	Danish (da) Spotlight (software)		0
3	German (de) Spotlight (Software)		0
4	Spanish (es) Spotlight (informática)		0
5	French (fr) Spotlight (moteur de recherche)		0
6	Italian (it) Spotlight (software)		0
7	Japanese (ja) Spotlight (Apple)		0
8	Korean (ko) 스포트라이트 (소프트웨어)		0
9	Dutch (nl) Spotlight (software)		0
10	Norwegian (no) Spotlight (dataprogram)		0

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

Language versions of the article "Spotlight (dataprogram)" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Spotlight (Apple)		424
2	Japanese (ja) Spotlight (Apple)		336
3	Italian (it) Spotlight (software)		298
4	Chinese (zh) Spotlight (應用程式)		262
5	Ukrainian (uk) Spotlight		233
6	Russian (ru) Поиск (Apple)		202
7	Korean (ko) 스포트라이트 (소프트웨어)		185
8	German (de) Spotlight (Software)		108
9	Dutch (nl) Spotlight (software)		103
10	Polish (pl) Spotlight (oprogramowanie)		62

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#	Language	Value
da	Danish Spotlight (software)
de	German Spotlight (Software)
en	English Spotlight (Apple)
es	Spanish Spotlight (informática)
fr	French Spotlight (moteur de recherche)
it	Italian Spotlight (software)
ja	Japanese Spotlight (Apple)
ko	Korean 스포트라이트 (소프트웨어)
nl	Dutch Spotlight (software)
no	Norwegian Spotlight (dataprogram)
pl	Polish Spotlight (oprogramowanie)
pt	Portuguese Spotlight (software)
ru	Russian Поиск (Apple)
sv	Swedish Spotlight (datorprogram)
uk	Ukrainian Spotlight
zh	Chinese Spotlight (應用程式)

Best Rank

Norwegian: #103512 06.2025

Global: #91139 06.2008

Best Rank

Norwegian: #2992 08.2017

Global: #35546 08.2005

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