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Safe and informative site. Has very much interesting info to read and educate yourself.
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This site is very informative. I am doing stuff for school and this helped me alot
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Website owned by Dictionary.com, LLC. An online dictionary, thesaurus, encyclopedia, translator and more. Safe website.
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Google Safe Browsing gave this site a very mixed review Safe Browsing Diagnostic page for reference.com What is the current listing status for reference.com? This site is not currently listed as suspicious. Part of this site was listed for suspicious activity 1 time(s) over the past 90 days. What happened when Google visited this site? Of the 5976 pages we tested on the site over the past 90 days, 1426 page(s) resulted in malicious software being downloaded and installed without user consent. The last time Google visited this site was on 2013-12-30, and the last time suspicious content was found on this site was on ***** Malicious software includes 713 exploit(s), 460 scripting exploit(s), 428 trojan(s). Successful infection resulted in an average of 3 new process(es) on the target machine. Malicious software is hosted on 948 domain(s), including donutszzz.biz/, germandressage.com/, ***** 692 domain(s) appear to be functioning as intermediaries for distributing malware to visitors of this site, including elite-bijou.com.ua/, joomlato.com/, ***** This site was hosted on 26 network(s) including AS16798 (IAC-SEARCH-MEDIA), AS701 (UUNET), AS209 (QWEST-US). Has this site acted as an intermediary resulting in further distribution of malware? Over the past 90 days, reference.com did not appear to function as an intermediary for the infection of any sites. Has this site hosted malware? No, this site has not hosted malicious software over the past 90 days. Use caution.
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this is a great site and safe.
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Very useful source, especially if you're still in school, college, university
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Really great database for research.
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Diese Seite gehört zu den meistbesuchtesten Seiten der Welt.
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you make learning so much fun.
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Great place to find information, especially if you are in school
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I couldn't have graduated without this website! very useful
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What's not to like? Site is useful and fun. Great for all types of research. It may have a couple of ads on it, but they have to maintain the site somehow. . . .
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good site, very helpful for research.
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Site with free online encyclopedia.
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Very useful and interesting site.
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Great source for information and to credit sources (Wiki is NOT a source - LOL)
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Good reference, thesaurus entries and general references.
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very good and useful site
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