Share/Winny = pieces of crap?

Has anyone ever managed to download anything using this? I've got a list of nodes, use a list of keywords for every file type yet I still can't find anything, not even test words that should return thousands of results.

I'm probably doing it wrong but buggered if I know what's wrong. It's possibly a crap node list (nodes rarely stay connected for more than a minute it seems) but I can't find any others.

I'm using share because it's supposed to be the best p2p for japanese files