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URLwire for Monday, August 30, 1999
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Famed Refdesk Relaunched Today
 
The creative genius behind Refdesk is Bob Drudge, a social worker from Maryland and the father of Matt Drudge, the author of the Drudge Report and the host of radio and TV shows. Yahoo! Internet Life selected Refdesk as of the 25 most incredibly useful sites on the net. 
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Refdesk.com, Inc., announced today the re-launch of their popular website, http://www.refdesk.com. Refdesk.com is the best single source for facts on the internet - links to fresh factual information on virtually any subject, indexed and screened for usefulness and value. 

The creative genius behind Refdesk is Bob Drudge, a social worker from Maryland.  Bob is the father of Matt Drudge, the author of the Drudge Report and the host of radio and TV shows. 
http://www.Refdesk.com
Refdesk.com is the best single source for facts on the internet - links to fresh factual information on virtually any subject, indexed and screened for usefulness and value. 

The new Refdesk was officially launched today. The layout was overhauled to make the organization clear.  Many sections were removed to make navigation easy.  The most popular sections were moved to the home page to make access easy.  And several steps were taken to make the site load quickly.  Bob says, “We worked with web pros to make it clear and easy to understand.  It was a major effort, but worth it, as our users greatly prefer the new site to the old.”

Bob adds, “The net is filled with an stunning variety of useful factual information.  Students, journalists, business people, researchers, in fact, everyone can benefit from all this free information.  But it is difficult to find the good stuff amongst the chaos of all the silly and irrelevant sites.  I have spent five years seeking and organizing just the good stuff.  The result is refdesk.com.” 

Refdesk.com receives nearly a million visits per month.  Most are repeat visitors.  “Once they find us, they bookmark us and keep coming back,” says Bob.

Yahoo! Internet Life says of Refdesk, “One of the 25 most incredibly useful websites on the net.” The BBC says, “A trusty friend to baffled surfers everywhere."  And CNN calls Refdesk, “Reference guide to all things internet.” 

If you'd like toknow more about Refdesk, send Email to either Bob Drudge, Editor, (410)901-4167, rbdrudge@refdesk.com, or Bruce Lawrence, President, (858)755-1079, balaw@znet.com.
 
 


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