Softpedia

Softpedia is a software and tech-news website based in Romania. It indexes, reviews and hosts downloadable software, has dedicated sections for Windows, Mac, Linux, Games, Drivers, Mobile, Webscripts, and News, and reports on technology and science topics from both external and in-house sources.

Softpedia
Type of site
Download & news website
Available inEnglish, Romanian
OwnerSoftNews NET SRL
URLsoftpedia.com
Alexa rank 2,358 (July 2020)[1]
CommercialYes
RegistrationOptional (not compulsory to download software)
Launched2001 (2001)[2]
Current statusActive

Website

Whenever possible, Softpedia includes one or more screenshots of each downloadable application, often showing its menus to help illustrate its features. Unlike most software sites that publish information provided by software developers, Softpedia's reviews are personally written by its staff reviewers.

Each review features the reviewer's 1–5 star rating, and often a public rating, to which any of the site's visitors may contribute.

Products are arranged in categories and sub-categories, which visitors can sort according to most recent updates, number of downloads, or ratings. Free software and commercial software (trials, demos) can also be viewed separately. SP displays virtual awards for products free of adware, spyware and commercial tie-ins. Products that include unrelated and/or unanticipated components and offers are clearly marked with links to complete details, so visitors can make educated choices about downloading and installing them.[3]

Softpedia does not repack software for distribution. It provides direct downloads of software in its original provided form, links to developers's downloads, or both. Unlike most software sites, Softpedia hosts many products on their own servers (automatically scanned for malware), so they are available even when their developers' sites are not.

Besides being "a popular destination for software downloads"[4], Softpedia features news, reviews and interviews on information technology, software and tech accessories.[5] It is owned by SoftNews NET SRL, a Romanian company.

gollark: In my school there are a bunch of displays with "information" on them (mostly news headlines and promotional images of the school) which apparently run Windows, because they frequently seem to undergo updates and sometimes are stuck on a blank desktop (do they not know how to make stuff autostart?).
gollark: Also since integers are nicer than decimal values.
gollark: Because bigger numbers → more better.
gollark: It's something like 8 characters, and does a clever thing to match any number (in unary) with factors other than 1 and itself. It also probably makes regex engines suffer horribly.
gollark: You can implement a primality checker quite easily with backreferences or something.

See also

References
  1. "Softpedia site ranks". Alexa Internet. Retrieved July 17, 2020.
  2. "Softpedia - Crunchbase". Crunchbase.
  3. "Download Startup Product Manager 3.48". softpedia. Retrieved 2018-07-27.
  4. Jameel, M. S.; Akshat, A.; Singh, C. T. (August 26–28, 2008). "Enhancements in query evaluation and page summarization of The Thinking Algorithm". International Symposium on Information Technology, 2008. Vol. 3. pp. 1–8. doi:10.1109/ITSIM.2008.4632050. ISBN 978-1-4244-2327-9.
  5. "Latest News & Reviews by Softpedia". news.softpedia.com. Retrieved 15 January 2018.
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