part of the difference is a consequence of the ever changing field of hosts you're connected to - as ultrapeers (and their connections) change so do your search results - but if you want to see just how odd the searches can be check out shareaza - if you do 2 simultaneous searches with say "*****" in one and "******" in another and then watch the "hit monitor" window you can see that whilst both search windows may remain entirely empty the hit monitor window will in fact have "***" and "*****" (along with all the ******* etc etc) - its a funny old world isn't it?

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