Why is this application never a top hit on Spotlight?


I’ve installed the Winbox4Mac application from here. It is a Windows application packaged to run with Wine.

It appears to look for all the world like any other valid (albeit non-codesigned) application bundle, and I can run it directly from the Finder like any other application once I’ve accepted the Gatekeeper prompt. However, no matter what I do, Spotlight will always preference anything else (especially web search) over it for Top Hit:

screenshot of spotlight preferring a web search over an application

To my knowledge, no other application on my computer shares this behaviour.
I’ve tried:

  • renaming the application and waiting for Spotlight to reindex it (no effect)
  • verifying that Spotlight doesn’t demote non-signed applications from Top Hit (it doesn’t)

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