hi all you developers out there,

here some ideas on improved search capabilities for clients (some would need additional information from servers though - don't know if the protocol specs allow this) ...

1) QoS as search criteria
specifying specific QoS requirements in a search really would help. this could be a (measured) bandwith specification like "only hosts that have a bandwith to me larger than x" or "only hosts that currently have free slots". what BearShare tries with green, red and color-less bars doesn't really help, as they do not even tell what exactly it means. also the speed given by the user doesn't help - had 1,5 Mbps downloads from hosts with given 24kbit connection (what is that supposed to be anyway?)

2) logical operators
logical operators like known from the web-based search engines would be really nice. at a minimum a "search-by-phrase" functionality should be implemented - this is needed for resumes which have to have the same name (don't they?). but also searching for interpret a but not the always available title b would be nice and help to minimise the results shown (maybe also the network traffic if possible to implement on protocol basis).

i will wait and see if any of you developers check this forum. have a couple of other ideas i might post if i get any feedback. good work anyway out there - please keep it up