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Most sought or looked for IT SOFTWARE on the WEB!!

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Hi all,
This may sound strange but I am reasearching on the most searched or looked for IT software on the WEB, There msut be some sort of site that will hold this type of information.
The most looked for IT software or any software and the most downloaded.
Does any one have any IDEA on this and can point me in the right direction please.
That will help.

Thanks

Blueangel-99

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  • I would imagine this would be almost impossible to calculate,

    Many software houses use many mirror sites, to keep their bandwidth costs down, and there are specialist download sites like cnet, or download.com keep their own top downloads,

    or the various search engines lists from here
    You could try Google Zeitgeist for searches on Google

    Anti virus, anti spyware, media players, image viewers all in different categories. The common theme to all of them is that they are freeware.
  • culpepper
    culpepper Posts: 4,076 Forumite
    im guessing utilities that have been around a long time like 'winzip' for example.
  • ormus
    ormus Posts: 42,714 Forumite
    any of the common plug ins will be very high on any list of dl SW.
    mostly media readers of one kind or another. also tools such as winzip etc.
    Get some gorm.
  • BritBrat
    BritBrat Posts: 3,764 Forumite
    I would think Microsoft updates.
  • Nilrem
    Nilrem Posts: 2,565 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 1,000 Posts
    From memory two of the most common ones are thought to be Adobe Acrobat and Macromedia flash.

    I believe they are thought to be on some stupidly high percentage of all PC's, Acrobat because it's a simple way to provide documentation (everything from court documents, to instruction manuals, to books, to diagrams for origami) and know it's going to print out correctly/look right on screen, and flash because it's an easy format to programme things in and platform independent (IE it's not tied to windows for using swf files).

    I think Robert Cringely (tech writer, has been doing a column for PBS for years) did a recent article where he mentioned some details on the flash and acrobat.
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