Software is linked to from the autors site. A good site to search. Software is not rated by the site, but is voted on by users. They claim to be the Planet's Largest Software Archive for Windows shareware and trialware on the Internet. In our opinion they are probably not the largest - but are certainly right up there.
All software listed here is archived at winsite.
They do not rate their software - but allow users to rate them out of 10. Like most other major software sites, they record downloads by product so it is easy to tell popular software. This site only lists software that meets certain criteria which is based on quality and fitting into certain categories. As a result, a lot of good software is not included here - but what you do find should be good quality. All software at Tucows is archived at their site.