Spotlight not connecting to internet My problem is that Spotlight shows no results from internet sources (Wikipedia, iTunes Store, etc.).  I've reindexed my drive twice, cleared all the caches, and reset the NVRAM.  Still not working.  I have everything in Spotlight preferences checked.

But when I search for a stock there's no results.  Funny thing is, if I try it in Safari it works just fine.

What's going on?

The output of launchctl list | grep Spotlight is


 465    0   com.apple.metadata.SpotlightNetHelper
 466    0   com.apple.Spotlight


This might be a duplicate of the following question question, but there's still not a satisfactory answer (and that question asks about Yosemite, not El Capitan):


Spotlight does not show contents from internet!
This seems like the sort if thing I would update to the latest OS version (you appear to be 10.11 - the initial and possibly most buggy release possible) and then retest with 10.11.6.

If you still have problems - make a new user account, log out of your current account and then see if a new account with default settings can search.

Unless you are on a corporate network that blocks some outbound connections - this likely is an issue with the settings file or an odd bug.