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| VISION STATEMENT: Refdesk aims to index, review, and publish quality, credible information-based Web sites and to assist readers in navigating and extracting needed data from these sites. On the Internet since 1995, Refdesk is free and family-friendly. |
2008 Fund Raising Goal = $50,000
Donations to Date = $35,025 (70% of Goal)
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Please help keep Refdesk on the Internet. Why? Refdesk ...
Become a member of an ever-growing group of people who start their Internet day with Refdesk. Become an owner of one of the largest 'grassroots' sites on the Internet. Help keep Refdesk free and family-friendly. Site Philosophy and Approach
Refdesk keeps online ads to a minimum. (A subscription-based Ad-free version of refdesk is available.) Refdesk does not charge to access site content. Instead, the spirit of the original, non-commercial Internet guides Refdesk. This spirit envisions a living encyclopedia of information in the public domain, maintained by people who freely share their knowledge of where to find things on the Internet. All site features are family-friendly and available free of charge.
I believe information and facts should neither be owned nor controlled by publishers - who may charge access/subscription fees - but should belong to the public, and should be made freely available. Refdesk is committed to this belief and to the establishment of a permanent public library of facts and information. User satisfaction and publishing relevant information from reliable, unbiased sources are Refdesk's top priorities.
As a service to site readers, Refdesk provides links to anti pop-up ads and anti SPAM (unsolicited E-mail) tools and resources.
Finally, you may register complaints about pop-ups and other online advertising at the Federal Trade Commission (click on 'File a Complaint Online.')
Each time I see or learn of objectionable ads I reject them with resulting increased loss in revenue. To keep Refdesk on the Internet, I need your help.
Your support can help keep Refdesk online. As refdesk's traffic grows so do costs associated with publishing the site. Refdesk averages 1 million page views per day. Publishing expenses include: web hosting services, hardware, software, and programming. The largest expense is for bandwidth. Each time a site reader clicks one one of refdesk's 20 thousand plus links, refdesk pays for the bandwidth charge to take the reader to their selected link.
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