I haven't had any problems with spotlight on Mac, in fact I've come to rely on it at work. For searching PDFs of wiring drawings, I can put in a cable tag and i

I haven't had any problems with spotlight on Mac, in fact I've come to rely on it at work. For searching PDFs of wiring drawings, I can put in a cable tag and it will come back with the documents it found it in. I open them in preview and the search is already filled in and it takes me right to the specific sheet. I guess your use case is different but I wouldn't trade it for any other searches methods I've tried. Edit: Sorry meant to reply to root.