Does anyone still search for pics on Bearshare or similar?

cs3007 · #1 06-02-2009, 08:15 AM

Just wondered as I have always (up until a year ago or so) used Bearshare, but for some reason all of a sudden it went crap almost overnight.

Before if I did a search on dsc00001 for example I would perhaps get around 280-310 results from both Bearshare and Limewire users, but now if I do the same search using the same Software (Bearshare 5.1.0b25) which allows forced Ultra Peer (most search results) I get around 1-10 results which is no good for finding new pics.

So is anyone using either Bearshare and Limewire and still getting a large amount of results?

Cheers

**eNergy** · #2 06-12-2009, 04:59 AM

No Your not on your own cs3007

It's now becoming widely excepted among p2p finder's that the Gnutella and Gnutella 2 network's day's are numbered

Myself and others experienced the same drop in search result's as you did, and at present I can't see a viable alternative to Bearshare Limewire ..etc which is a real shame.

If anyone knows of or use's another application for searching for original find's please post your experiences here.

Thankyou.

eNergy

fuckall · #3 06-12-2009, 07:28 AM

I tend to use Emule, not seen a noticable drop in that p2p networking.

cs3007 · #4 06-12-2009, 07:55 PM

The good thing about searching BS/LW was that everyone uses either one of these, so there was more chance of finding genuine private finds (shared by accident in my docs

).

But with other P2P like Emule, not many people use this now, so can't see any chance of finding anything on there, but I could be wrong?

Hope something happens to revive the search results, as I really miss my hunting, even if I don't have as much time as a few years ago.

Cheers

xman14 · #5 06-12-2009, 11:23 PM

i have always used frostwire which is a limewire clone and i will say its slow until its sorted its self out.

it seems you need to let it log its self into the network (or reg with the servers or something) i dont know a huge amount about these things tbh.
but it does seem to work alot better after you leave it for 10-15 mins.

and i also find it works better at certain times of the day best for me is over night (uk time)

what sort of pics are you looking to stumble onto may i ask?

yee-buddy · #6 06-14-2009, 01:38 PM

Wasn't bearshare set up by some polive force, to catch illegal downloading..? Ive never used it or limewire as torrents have taken there place!