Spotlight slowing down and glitching computers

New information about Spotlight slowing down and glitching your computer. I don't recommend it for anyone who regularly uses Spotlight Search but I don't - and am giving it a try to solve an ongoing issue for me and a lot of other folks.

I read a piece by Michael Simon in MacWorld that addressed the problem many of us have been having with glitches caused by Spotlight. He claimed that he solved his same problems by toggling off items under System Settings/Spotlight. He disabled 'Show related content' and 'Help Apple improve search'.

I have been regularly deleting large folders in ~/Library/Metadata/CoreSpotlight/ and this insight from Michael Simon seems to follow that same reasoning. Again, if you regularly use Spotlight Search, you obviously want to leave at least the first item enabled.