A smart itsy bitsy spider for the web
Journal of the American Society for Information Science - Special topic issue: artificial intelligence techniques for emerging information systems applications
Analysis of a very large web search engine query log
ACM SIGIR Forum
Real life, real users, and real needs: a study and analysis of user queries on the web
Information Processing and Management: an International Journal
Searching the Web: the public and their queries
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
A personal agent for Chinese financial news on the Web
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
Vox populi: the public searching of the Web
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
Search and replication in unstructured peer-to-peer networks
ICS '02 Proceedings of the 16th international conference on Supercomputing
Multitasking information seeking and searching processes
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
Characteristics of question format web queries: an exploratory study
Information Processing and Management: an International Journal
IEEE Internet Computing
Experimenting with Gnutella Communities
DCW '02 Revised Papers from the 4th International Workshop on Distributed Communities on the Web
Interoperability of peer-to-peer file sharing protocols
ACM SIGecom Exchanges
Searching Behavior in Peer-to-Peer Communities
ITCC '03 Proceedings of the International Conference on Information Technology: Computers and Communications
Tracing a Large-Scale Peer to Peer System: An Hour in the Life of Gnutella
CCGRID '02 Proceedings of the 2nd IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Cluster Computing and the Grid
Changes in queries in Gnutella peer-to-peer networks
Journal of Information Science
An evaluation of a recursive weighing scheme for information retrieval in peer-to-peer networks
Proceedings of the 2005 ACM workshop on Information retrieval in peer-to-peer networks
Web searching in Chinese: A study of a search engine in Hong Kong
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
A dynamic routing protocol for keyword search in unstructured peer-to-peer networks
Computer Communications
A statistical study of today’s gnutella
APWeb'06 Proceedings of the 8th Asia-Pacific Web conference on Frontiers of WWW Research and Development
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Peer-to-Peer (P2P) networks provide a new distributed computing paradigm on the Internet for file sharing. The decentralized nature of P2P networks fosters cooperative and non-cooperative behaviors in sharing resources. Searching is a major component of P2P file sharing. Several studies have been reported on the nature of queries of World Wide Web (WWW) search engines, but studies on queries of P2P networks have not been reported yet. In this report, we present our study on the Gnutella network, a decentralized and unstructured P2P network. We found that the majority of Gnutella users are located in the United States. Most queries are repeated. This may be because the hosts of the target files connect or disconnect from the network any time, so clients resubmit their queries. Queries are also forwarded from peers to peers. Findings are compared with the data from two other studies of Web queries. The length of queries in the Gnutella network is longer than those reported in the studies of WWW search engines. Queries with the highest frequency are mostly related to the names of movies, songs, artists, singers, and directors. Terms with the highest frequency are related to file formats, entertainment, and sexuality. This study is important for the future design of applications, architecture, and services of P2P networks.