I have noticed that some Gnutella searches return results that do not match the filename, but match the path the file is stored in on the host computer.

A little further checking and I figured out that some idiots are sharing their entire hard drive with the whole world. Just do a search with "doc" or "cookies" or "documents" or "personal" and you will see what I mean.

I am guessing a lot of users do this to make it look like they are sharing a bunch of files with the network, so they won't appear as leeches to other gnutella hosts.

I think that Gnutella developers should make some sort of standard warning to users, to let them know not to share any personal files or anything that they don't want everyone to see, and that once shared, they will never be able to know every place their files went.

Also, is it a good idea for a gnutella client to return a match when the search term matches the path name but not the filename?