search more

[naynay]

like in kazaa one of it's best features is that you could keep searching for the same file by click search more. Sometimes I'd click that thing 50 times and would keep finding stuff.

that would be a great feature!

thanks for a wonderful program!

[murasame]

There's already a similar feature (in a way): the Repeat search function.
Thing is, if every user hit 50 times in a row the repeat search thingy, the resulting fooding of the network would be so hard to overcome, we would switch to mailing CDs and VHS...

[naynay]

thank you for your response.

where do I find this repeat search feature?

Also I didn't get the feeling with Kazaa that I was repeating the search, more like it was adding files to the search already done, like extending the search. Are you saying that the repeat search works the same in limewire? I'd be delighted.

[murasame]

Well, if a search takes 1 minute, the if you repeat search you will be sure to have results that are a little different from the previous ones as users go online/offline oll the time all around the world. (To repeat a search, right-click the tab that displays the keywords used for the search and choose repeat search.)
Also, if you want more results, you can go to Tools, Options and look around: there's an option that allows you to set the amount of results to be displayed. Besides, I don't know if you've noticed, but sometimes, even though the search "meter" says that the search is over, results still come in.

[ninjabuddha]

i think what he means is that limewire should have an option where you can "autosearch" and leave the computer on overnight so the files can continuously pile up while they sleep. sitting there for hours punching the repeat search button, is too much trouble. i was wondering about the same thing. why doesnt limewire have this same function kazaa lite had. it was so convinient, and one of the reasons why i would have gone back to klite, had they not shut down.

[murasame]

I think that what he means is more like the search results are like a book and every time you click show more, it "turns the page".
Anyway, a feature like the one you mention ninja-san, was, I believe, already incorporated in LW some time ago. Even if it wasn't, the point is that there probably will never for the good of the network.

I'll explain (in my own "way"):

Whenever you click on that search button, a message is sent to the Gnutella network that says that there is someone looking for that file.
Good.
That consumes bandwidth (not much but it still does).
Ok.
If you had a autorepeat function, that would, overnight, continuously send those messages to the network.
For better or for worse, you and I are not the only ones searching the network: probably another 10000 users wanna do so too at the same time.
If all those users used that autorepeat function all the time, it would flood the network with those messages=network slows down=downloads/uploads slow down.
Not good.

[ninjabuddha]

yea that wouldnt be good. how is this for a suggestion though. allow the limewire PRO users to have the option to autosearch. that way there wouldnt be as much traffic. limewire is great for the songs everyone has already, but it is a bitch trying to find the unpopular songs. just a suggestion.

[murasame]

Mmmmh, yeah.

I can't really tell you what they're thinking since I'm not affiliated to the devs and other LW people, but the Pro and Basic aren't made so that you have to pay to get full functionality or things like that. The Pro has very subtile changes compared to the Basic version, and I think that's their current aim.
Basically, what I'm saying is that they will not put something in Pro that already isn't in Basic (if I'm wrong people, feel free to correct me).
Besides, even if they did that, cracks of the Pro version would most surely be made and distributed, maybe in Gnutella itself. As a result, too many people would still have the ability to use that autorepeat thingy. You know the consequences.

Some of my friends tend to tell me I think too much...

Deja vu?

Yup. http://www.gnutellaforums.com/showth...threadid=13472

[Lord of the Rings]

Perhaps you don't understand the logic of what the developers said back then & what Murasame was talking about. If you want a really really slow network then perhaps requerying would benefit you. There's other techniques to achieve what you want without requeries. If you've ever used the Resume funciton on ALL of your files (particularly if you have a large no. of incomplete files) then you 'might' get the grasp of just 'some' of the side effects.