Even Gnucleus users are isolated from other Gnucleus users.

Why? Because of the Morpheus influx, the network is WAY too big for any single servent to see a significant percentage of the entire network.

No matter where you are in the network, I estimate that about 80% of the network is "invisible" to you due to its size.

Not to worry - Free Peers, Inc. has submitted the "query mesh" proposal to the GDF. This is a proposal to provide global searchability to the network, in a vendor-interoperable standard.

This proposal offers a number of benefits:

1) Web servers can return Gnutella search results

2) Queries with TTL>2 are eliminated

3) Searching burden is shifted from the network to the client (person doing the search)

4) Searches are more efficient, since they can be stopped when the desired number of results are obtained.

The scheme can also be extended to create content affinity groups (clusters of Ultrapeers whose leaves have a specific content type, e.g. "anime").

You can read the full text of the proposal here:

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/the_gd.../querymesh.txt