The Downloads Net Top 20 brings you the pick of the most popular and highest-rating sites for downloads on the Net today.

It gives you access to the world's best downloads sites, all from a single page.

Download.com from Cnet offers the definitive online directory of downloadable shareware and freeware. Features include dynamic user ratings and download records to demonstrate how popular and useful each listing is after installation.

Tucows made a name for itself early in the development of the Internet for being the first to provide software on a freeware or shareware basis. Now they offer 30,000 software titles through their network of more than 1000 partner sites worldwide, giving it's users fast local downloads.

Zdnet Downloads offer a comprehensive, searchable directory of software available for download, along with user ratings and reviews.

All the sites in this review offer directories of downloadable shareware and freeware, each with their own approach to the subject, and put together they make up our pick of the best and most popular downloads sites online today.

If you liked this guide, and found the review of the top sites useful, you may also want to check out some of the other Net Top 20 listings which link you to the best on the Net in a number of the most popular categories. 

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