I understand that Gnutella always searches for maximum hits, offering also remotely similar results. There is no option for refined search, such as search for "Jennifer Brown" and nothing else. In general I like it that way, sometimes I wish I could narrow down my search.

I really wonder, if such a search option would not be a method to reduce traffic significantly. I just recently searched for files by Jennifer Brown, and it takes two or three attempts every five minutes or so to get some results. Retrying really makes a difference here. Maybe a second and third attempt travels further on, or new leaves come online, I don't know.

While I repeat searches to get these rare files, Gnutella has to return everything about Jennifer Lopez and every file with the word brown in its name again and again. I'm almost sure that such unnecessary searches push each other in the narrow channels of our favorite network.