Some of the other p2p sharing programs, some of past, some of present, can spend 20-60+ mins for a single 'full' search. lol LW does reasonably well to get as many results as it can in such a short time. Unfortunately, like many other p2p networks it has been hit by deliberate spamming by organisations trying to prevent copyright files being shared.

Some people accidentally or deliberately mis-title their files. This might be by guessing what the file is rather than doing any research as to what it is. Some re-titling is to cover what the content of the file really is for attempted secret sharing.

Personally I prefer Phex's search engine. It has various search filters including size filters & 'not include specific words' filters. Phex also connects to more of the other gnutella client programs, whereas LW mostly connects to other LW users.



Some interesting articles partially related:

Differing results - Gnutella Forums

http://www.gnutellaforums.com/148454-post246.html

Gnutella Forums - View Single Post - Feature Requests

Only partially related is:

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Number of users connected.
"I ran the limewire application using Eclipse to connect to Gnutella network successfully.

I am able to download the files requested at search button.

Apart from this, I would like to know how many number of users are connected to this network on every day.

How and where could I get this information from?"

LW Programmer's response:
"There really is no source for this, atleast not readily available in the program. The best way is to crawl the network, although I don't recommend doing it too often. We used to do a nightly crawl and posts the results, but the machine the crawl ran on died a miserable death, and the crawler was so old that we couldn't get it to run again on any other machine. We've written a few others, but haven't really had the time to set up the scripts that will generate the chart & pictures.

The last crawl I ran (about a week ago) showed approximately 3 million leafs and 1 million ultrapeers."