Spotlight (dataprogram)

Spotlight - system-wide desktop search feature of Apple's OS X operating system. This software is the 621^st most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of software and the 345^th most popular software in Norwegian Wikipedia. Article “Spotlight (dataprogram)” in Norwegian Wikipedia has 1 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026).

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 8 registered users of Norwegian Wikipedia and edited by 518 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

Spotlight is on the 345^th place in local ranking of software in Norwegian Wikipedia and on the 621^st place in global ranking of software in all the time.

The article is cited 2 times in Norwegian Wikipedia and cited 2359 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Norwegian): #2993 in August 2017
• Global: #35629 in August 2005

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Norwegian): #123787 in July 2020
• Global: #104839 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, 2026 (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)		49.125
2	German (de) Spotlight (Software)		39.326
3	Russian (ru) Поиск (Apple)		29.8893
4	Portuguese (pt) Spotlight (software)		28.5488
5	Ukrainian (uk) Spotlight		15.5266
6	Chinese (zh) Spotlight (應用程式)		15.3528
7	Korean (ko) 스포트라이트 (소프트웨어)		13.0052
8	Spanish (es) Spotlight (informática)		12.3834
9	Italian (it) Spotlight (software)		8.4623
10	Polish (pl) Spotlight (oprogramowanie)		6.4681

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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)		1 096 761
2	Russian (ru) Поиск (Apple)		177 262
3	German (de) Spotlight (Software)		107 689
4	Italian (it) Spotlight (software)		36 067
5	Dutch (nl) Spotlight (software)		25 998
6	Portuguese (pt) Spotlight (software)		23 430
7	Spanish (es) Spotlight (informática)		22 035
8	French (fr) Spotlight (moteur de recherche)		16 128
9	Chinese (zh) Spotlight (應用程式)		14 700
10	Ukrainian (uk) Spotlight		9 619

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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 2026

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Spotlight (Apple)		1 647
2	Chinese (zh) Spotlight (應用程式)		178
3	Russian (ru) Поиск (Apple)		128
4	German (de) Spotlight (Software)		96
5	Japanese (ja) Spotlight (Apple)		88
6	French (fr) Spotlight (moteur de recherche)		69
7	Spanish (es) Spotlight (informática)		46
8	Italian (it) Spotlight (software)		44
9	Portuguese (pt) Spotlight (software)		27
10	Korean (ko) 스포트라이트 (소프트웨어)		18

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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)		157
2	German (de) Spotlight (Software)		66
3	Italian (it) Spotlight (software)		53
4	French (fr) Spotlight (moteur de recherche)		51
5	Japanese (ja) Spotlight (Apple)		29
6	Russian (ru) Поиск (Apple)		28
7	Chinese (zh) Spotlight (應用程式)		26
8	Spanish (es) Spotlight (informática)		25
9	Dutch (nl) Spotlight (software)		17
10	Danish (da) Spotlight (software)		13

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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 2026

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Spotlight (Apple)		2
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)		417
2	Japanese (ja) Spotlight (Apple)		349
3	Italian (it) Spotlight (software)		299
4	Chinese (zh) Spotlight (應用程式)		279
5	Ukrainian (uk) Spotlight		240
6	Korean (ko) 스포트라이트 (소프트웨어)		210
7	Russian (ru) Поиск (Apple)		210
8	German (de) Spotlight (Software)		107
9	Dutch (nl) Spotlight (software)		105
10	Polish (pl) Spotlight (oprogramowanie)		63

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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: #123787 07.2020

Global: #104839 06.2008

Best Rank

Norwegian: #2993 08.2017

Global: #35629 08.2005

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