On Sat, 2007-07-21 at 21:22 +0000, Amos Shapira wrote: > On 21/07/07, Shachar Shemesh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Truth be told, I smell a rat. I googled them up (looked for > "softpedia > spam"), and came up with either an extremely high google rank, > or an > extremely low buzz about them.
> In the mean while, am I a cynical SOB, or are they just > boosting their > own traffic and page rank (the reason I mangled the links) by > awarding, > well, awards with no content to them? > > Possibly you are right - I also get results about their site way too > much recently while looking for software - but then this was Windows > software which I never look for until recently when I? installed the > first Windows XP at home. The impression I got is that they try to be > some sort of a twocows-alike software clearing house. They come up as decently ranked matches on searches for a lot of free (as in speech) and Linux software (free and otherwise) and they have lots of Linux related content (articles and such). I tend to mistrust them as well, but at the moment they look like a decent software site with lost of free software related content, which is very good IMO. -- Oded ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
