Summary
A key technology in OS X is Spotlight, which indexes all the information on your Mac to make it quickly accessible in searches. You can use Spotlight to quickly search for various types of information, from applications to the content within documents, as well as attributes of files, such as image size and last modification date.
The quick way to access Spotlight is via the Search box at the upper right of the menu bar. But if you want to define criteria for your search, you need to use the options in the Finder window that appear when you begin a search in the window's own Search box.
Some applications integrate Spotlight to search their own contents, such as System Preferences and Mail.
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