Softpedia

Softpedia is a site that indexes information and provides downloads for many games, drivers, mobile phones, and software for the Windows, Macintosh and Linux platforms, as well as PDAs and other devices. The site also indexes major technology, science, health, and entertainment news both from ticker servers and from in-house sources. As of April 2007, it is one of the top 500 websites according to Alexa traffic rankings.The site was originally known as Softnews.ro, but was changed to Softpedia near the end of 2003.

Software categories are arranged hierarchically and are modeled after Windows filesystem paths, such as "C: \ Mobile Phone Tools \ Sony Ericsson." Users can sort by criteria such as the date of the last update, the number of downloads, or the rating. There are three viewing modes, normal, freeware, or shareware, which allows users to screen out certain types of software.

Malware testing

Softpedia claims to thoroughly test each software product and game they list and to check each one for evidence of viruses, malware, adware or spyware using a variety of well known antivirus and antispyware products.[citation needed] Programs which Softpedia finds to be free of viruses, malware, adware and spyware are given its "100% Clean" award; programs which are also freeware are given Softpedia's "100% Free" award.

Google Search marks Softpedia as a harmful website


On 18 September 2007, some search results in Google search engine pointing to Softpedia.com were tagged with a "This site may harm your computer." message. The notation was removed by 20 September 2007, but no information concerning the situation was listed at Stopbadware.org. Softpedia blamed the notation on the actions of a third-party advertising provider.

Statistics


* Number of applications indexed: 276,503 as of 2007-06-28
* Total number of downloads: 365,094,945 as of 2007-06-28
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