I see the name everwhere: a seperate version of emule that "supports kad", a "method" in the search pane of emule, etc
but what is Kad?
I can't seem to find any info on the web or helpfiles or anything that will tell me *what it is*
It is Kademlia. It is a search protocol or somethin I think. It is used for decentralized searching.
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Kademlia is the protocol used by both both Overnet and eMule's new network. It's based on distributed hash tables. Every connected user is a node which helps index certain key words. If your hash is closest to the hash of the word "sandler", you'll index every file with the word "sandler" in it. So if anyone searches for the word "sandler", you'll send back a list of files along with the IP addresses of whoever has them. That's the basic jist of it.
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