search results test

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I tried my own little search results test.

I picked 10 obscure bands/tracks in 11 different genres and did searches within the same time period on 5 most popular methods.

http://www.ipbbooks.com/progtest.html

skip down the intro text to the table of results. that intro text is just because i'm framing it as an article for a friends site (and I'm gonna rewrite it).

Gnucleus/Gnutella came up with the most hits consistently for tracks. All the clients pretty much performed evenly, but no client stood out (WinMX, in fact, returned the least results most consistently).

I figure the reason people like returns for WinMX so much is because they are using the WinMX servers PLUS a good list of OpenNap servers. There's one problem with that opinion... WinMX no longer comes with a list of OpenNap servers. So for a newbie that stat is moot.

If I added the Audiognome results to the WinMX results... I can see why people would be really impressed by WinMX. But I personally don't have the AG server list in my WinMX, as I'm sure most don't.

Once you stip the OpenNap results and rely on only the WinMX server results, it's one of the weaker programs.