No other P2P network has as many clients as the Gnutella community. Several clients, such as LimeWire, Shareaza, Morpheus and BearShare have been among the more popular programs. Other, more obscure clients such as aBitCool, VPutella, and HelloWorld manage to float around among the nearly 30 different Gnutella iterations.
The improved crawler is an effort currently underway by the LimeWire team. With so many different clients on the network, ascertaining an accurate user count is complex at best. We spoke with LimeWire CEO Greg Bildson to explain some of the details about the improve network crawler:
“I’m currently trying to motivate Gnutella developers to conform to the standards that make accurate counting possible in the crawl. This simplifies reporting the Leaves and Peer headers when presented with the “Crawler: 0.1″ header – clients that don’t support that should at least ensure that true ultrapeers are only added to the X-TRY-ULTRAPEER header. Both BearShare and LimeWire originally forgot to include the UserAgent in the crawl feedback but that is starting to become universally prevalent now.”
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