Why RefDesk.com is my homepage !

Refdesk ...

• ranks number one at google in search results (out of over 300 million sites) on key word reference.
• is free.
• offers free Daily Mailings of the 'Site-of-the-Day' and the 'Thought-of-the-Day.'
• Daily listings of Current Events topics and History Today.
• publishes no pop-up or pop-under ads.
• provides links to Anti Pop-Up Ads and Anti SPAM Tools.
• links to no adult-related, sexually explicit sites, and is 100% family-friendly.
• publishes an Advertising Policy.
• is more than 99% content, with a bare minimum of graphics and ads.
• has over 20,000 selected links on more than 500 pages .
• checks and validates, twice yearly, links on top 200 pages.
• has a strictly enforced Privacy Policy and collects no 'cookies'.
• has Site Inclusion Criteria for accepting new sites.
• selected by PC World Magazine as '2004: Best Reference and News Resource,' PC Magazine as '2003: Top 100 Web Sites,' Yahoo! Internet Life magazine as 'Best Reference Directory' for both 2001 and 2002, along with numerous other awards.
• is Colin Powell's 'Favorite Site'.
• averages over one million daily page views.
• Disclaimer on Advertisments And External Links

It's the next best thing to having a Reference Library at your fingertips ! Take their site tour. Mission : "Refdesk has three goals: (1) fast access, (2) intuitive and easy navigation and (3) comprehensive content, rationally indexed. The prevailing philosophy here is: simplicity. "Simplicity is the natural result of profound thought." And, very difficult to achieve." But they have. this is definitely a site to bookmark for future use !

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