did you try searching for somethign common?

you just need to enter one word like

madonna

into the thing.. no .mp3's just word.. if you get somethign back then the search works.. right now gnutella has a problem with moochers so it will be hard to find.. i wrote bearshare and they said they are going to fix that.. with version 2 next week sometime.. it will support the ability to block users that are trying to download your stuff from the web.. because thats where most of the download requests come from.. so gnutella should be working alot better once everyone upgrades to that.