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The Best Page in the Universe is a personal satirical humor website created by George Ouzounian, better known as Maddox, of Salt Lake City, Utah. Launched in 1997 without any high expectations, the website became known by word of mouth. ==History and status== "The Best Page in the Universe" originated from a text document that Maddox wrote in 1996〔"(It's a man's world )." ''Salon''〕 aptly named "fifty things that piss me off!" He gave the list to several people on EFnet's #coders, and the positive response led him to create the website.〔 Maddox decided to name his site "The Best Page in the Universe" despite his knowledge that at the time Yahoo! blocked sites with the phrase "the best" in the title from inclusion in its search engine.〔Maddox. ("100 million faces rocked" ). The Best Page in the Universe. March 18, 2005〕 On July 15, 2009, Xmission.com, which hosts The Best Page in the Universe, had an Alexa rank of about 16,000,〔(XMission.com ranking on Alexa.com )〕 and TheBestPageInTheUniverse.net, which works as an alternative domain for Maddox's website, had an Alexa rank of about 33,000.〔(Thebestpageintheuniverse.net's rating on Alexa.com )〕 Maddox himself wrote an article in 2002 illustrating that despite all traffic being generated by word-of-mouth alone, his site was still ranked ahead of major corporations such as McDonalds and Pepsi, who spend millions of dollars on advertising every year.〔http://www.thebestpageintheuniverse.net/c.cgi?u=owned〕 He launched a competition for people to send him cartoons about himself or his website, most of which are attacks about emails for "more updates." Later, he parodied this himself by stating that now that he's finished with the comic book, he'd be able to "Not update the site more regularly." Entries included a depiction of Maddox leaping out of a computer monitor and smashing two fans' faces together, and a comic strip of a boy checking the website for new content only to find a cartoon of himself that he had posted ten seconds earlier.〔Maddox. ("Holy shit! I'm writing a book!" ). February 19, 2005. The Best Page in the Universe. (Archive.org).〕〔Kiyan, Randy. ("Week of 11/01/05" ). The Best Page in the Universe. November 1, 2005.〕〔Horus. ("Weekly Submission" ). The Best Page in the Universe. November 2005.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「The Best Page in the Universe」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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