Yes well thats what me and a lot of other people have realised with LimeWire, there are not half as many results as there used to be, but it is still better (I think) than 5.0, try checking or unchecking the "OOB Searching" in the "searching" tab in options on LimeWire, sometimes that might work well on different connections
p.s OOB means "Out Of Bound Searching"
Get back to me

If so many people are experiencing the same issue with different setups...then isnt it a software issue?

Well if you are regarding the "not so many search results", its LimeWires effort to crack down on spam and viruses and all of them old chestnuts.

This isn't a case of "something at your end". It is a software issue. None of the "fixes" work... well, one did months ago when I tried it but the same fix doesn't work now.

The fact is that there is an issue and I get NO results... not "fewer", not "less". None. I have downloaded various versions and tried all of the ridiculously complicated "fixes" suggested and none work. I haven't been able to download in months.

If "thousands" of users are having problems then, perhaps, someone should fix the problem. I was going with Limewire Pro to get all the bells and whistles... until I stopped being able to search. Not now...

According to one of the LW developers, the latest version of LW (5.1.1) should have the search problem fixed.

Strangely enough... After months of it not working and minutes after posting my last comment, suddenly it is working... And I did nothing to change anything in the interim.

I find the search problems are periodic, no matter which version of LW I am using. And I use both LW 4 & 5. The search problem may last for a day or up to a week. That's just my own experience. Sometimes searching the same thing too frequently can apparently have this effect so it was suggested to me.