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Yesterday I upgraded to Lion and it seems it got some additions on Spotlight - the Developer and Web Searches groups.

Sadly I couldn't find a way to disable them. There isn't an option in the Spotlight preferences and I couldn't find the right defaults option.

Any ideas on how to hide them? They are cluttering Spotlight FAR too much :)

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I detailed a fix in this blog post: http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=1193533

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This only works for removing the Developer category. – Oliver Ash Aug 13 '11 at 23:15
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Although the Search Results do not have toggles to sort or suppress these results, it's trivial to add the folders to the Privacy Pane.

Perhaps something like this might work to Suppress the Developer hits? enter image description here

I don't see an obvious way to suppress the Web Search yet, but thankfully it's placed last as a catch all - last resort. I'll probably feedback / bug Apple if 10.7.1 doesn't address that with a preference.

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Well this means that I have to exclude my whole HD... :( – bisko Aug 11 '11 at 8:53
I've tried to get a flood of developer results but can't. It only contributes one, two or three hits to the bottom of the list spotlight window. What are you seeing and how could the developer files be anywhere but the developer folder? – bmike♦ Aug 11 '11 at 13:27
As a web developer myself, I have a projects folder in my home dir. Every project have more than enough files in it and it just fills the spotlight results with items I do not want there. Not that it gets in my way or anything, I still get the results I'm looking for at the top, but it still annoys me to have them there. – bisko Aug 11 '11 at 14:43
Certainly file a bug - they added a class to the tool, it needs to be orderable/filterable like all the other categories of data. – bmike♦ Aug 11 '11 at 14:50

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