> please don#t outo close the search tabs, if you are hunting for
> rare files, it might take many hours before you get a proper hit

hm no.

A typical search within a normal gnutella horizon is finished after minutes. What you might see is IMHO an accumulation of (old) search hits from new hosts connected, but this is not a real research. You will experience much better results (= more succesfull downloads), if you research periodically, e.g. every 15 minutes.

See here: "Searching indicator... "
http://www.gnutellaforums.com/showth...&threadid=5111

Greets Moak