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Welcome to Majestic-12!

Majestic-12 is working towards creation of a World Wide Web search engine based on concepts of distributing workload in a similar fashion achieved by successful projects such as SETI@home and distributed.net. You can read more details on the project here. Below you can see recent news highlights, but for full details its best to check our forum.

20/11/17 MJ12node v1.7.16

New node with a few changes, please download from here!

15/11/16 MJ12node v1.7.15 (Update 2)

New node with lots of changes, please download from here!

30/05/15 MJ12node v1.7.13

Important update, please download from here!

28/05/15 MJ12node v1.7.12

Important update, please download from here!

5/07/14 Project continues for existing members only

From today we are stopping accepting NEW project members, however the project continues for those who have already joined it!

22/04/14 MJ12node v1.7.11

Important update, please download from here!

25/08/13 MJ12node v1.7.10

Important bug fix, please download from here!

23/08/13 MJ12node v1.7.9

Important update please download from here!

16/10/12 One trillion URLs crawled!

8 years since start of the project we've crawled one trillion URLs! See more in this forum post here.

21/04/12 MJ12node v1.7.8

Important update please download from here!

07/02/12 MJ12node v1.7.7

Important update please download from here!

18/12/11 MJ12node v1.7.6

Important update with a number of fixes please update software from here!

4/07/11 MJ12node v1.7.5

Significant upgrade with support for non-standard robots.txt externsions, get it here!

5/02/11 MJ12node v1.7.0

New generaction of crawler supporting more flexible crawling central server, get it here!

6/12/09 MJ12node v1.6.11

A number of important bug fixes, please upgrade your node here!

24/10/09 MJ12node v1.6.10

A number of important bug fixes, please upgrade your node here!

8/10/09 Majestic-12 finds more than 1 trillion unique URLs!

Majestic-12 confirms Google's milestone: more than 1 trillion URLs found, more here.

21/08/09 New giga-server squared!

A giga-monster-specced server (2x quad Xeons 2.5 Ghz, 32 GB RAM, 24 TB disks) was yet again kindly donated by an Gigaserver.nl from Holland! This server will enable the project to get to a new level of web link graph analysis - in September 2008 we expect to update anchor index to be the biggest publicly available index of its kind.

19/08/09 MJ12node v1.6.7

Small but important update, upgrade your node here!

14/08/08 MJ12node v1.6.6

One more bug fix related to filtering of session ids, update your node here!

09/08/08 MJ12node v1.6.5

An important bug fix related to parsing of XML feeds that used non-Latin encoding, please update your nodes here!

05/08/08 MJ12node v1.6.4

A lot of fixes and better analysis functionality in the new build, update it from here!

11/07/08 MJ12node v1.6.2

This new build features better support for "deep-crawling" as well as some bug fixes, update it from here!

22/04/08 MJ12node v1.6.1

Important bug-fix in the new client, update it from here!

10/04/08 MJ12node v1.6.0

Lots of fixes with much less disk used and more crawling for the same bandwidth usage: download new client here!

04/02/08 Majestic-SEO

Majestic-12 is proud to launch Majestic featuring anchor index - database of over 130 bln unique urls with backlinks and anchor text that can be analysed and reported to help understand relevancy issues that affect ranking of websites in modern web scale search engines.

6/01/08 Small redesign!

This is a small homepage redesign to give bigger emphasis to participants of this project rather than old new that have been archived here.

26/10/07 MJ12node v1.5.0

Many bugs fixes in data analysis module: download new client here.

17/08/07 New giga server

A monster-specced server (2x quad Xeons, 16 GB RAM, 16 TB disks) was provided by an appropriately named company Gigaserver from Holland, which is a big fan of the MJ12 project and wanted to contribute with a really poweful server, many thanks go to those great guys with great servers! This server will be fully utilised with the upcoming "anchor index"! Watch out Big G!

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Distributed Network Stats



Top 24 users (Today)

#NickURLs
done
Data
(MB)
1Germany nemercry910,538,16559,330,415
2Ukraine tiss770,452,23851,114,114
3Germany Pr0vieH614,223,38938,228,137
4Ukraine UA_ReMMeR372,970,23724,634,135
5elvis1298,918,55119,368,987
6Norway steinrar69,091,8834,400,018
7Germany |MatMan|47,571,8763,066,709
8Hong Kong SAR hixie36,053,4892,239,177
9Germany BalouTheNavigator27,294,6711,805,641
10Germany Nitmeare22,839,0151,484,445
11Australia Jonathan Ferguson19,426,7201,293,088
12Netherlands Smiba15,246,5461,038,778
13Germany GrafZahl14,264,653942,399
14batkerson12,953,763858,389
15strafteter12,445,150809,982
16Hungary MJster11,221,684757,813
17Germany rw20077,627,854519,681
18United States sTs9504,489,925313,015
19Ukraine absolut3,581,526234,480
20Germany WoM1,851,338125,374
21United Kingdom Hat Monster1,697,441114,694
22Germany Andreas388711,636,157115,753
23Czech Republic Celebrindol1,588,418110,999
24Netherlands Cowtipping1,404,845102,659
Total (40 users)3,285,655,573213,458,721
Top 24 users (Overall)

#NickURLs
done
Data
(MB)
1Germany nemercry4,732,576,269,972195,333,473,594
2Germany Pr0vieH3,528,934,528,629147,683,952,892
3United States serverninjas3,519,282,870,242124,480,600,905
4Ukraine tiss2,624,346,611,022121,958,732,090
5Ukraine UA_ReMMeR1,812,544,553,37892,095,182,850
6Finland refic1,349,076,621,93840,463,973,818
7United Kingdom Majestic12722,220,035,04321,215,915,918
8elvis1622,439,768,26719,496,385,848
9Switzerland rauppe31612,077,149,65516,700,218,297
10Germany Norman_RKN569,566,469,14713,899,058,485
11Germany Nitmeare500,923,283,43912,920,710,670
12Germany |MatMan|378,775,665,03914,791,301,085
13Norway steinrar376,601,321,40117,279,479,976
14Germany BalouTheNavigator337,843,656,95410,895,747,002
15Ukraine smilesvua314,634,307,1268,384,894,298
16Austria Fusl288,497,148,9147,238,959,661
17Belgium elhoim277,275,051,7397,478,279,984
18strafteter272,335,990,68212,721,826,164
19Belgium bruno28225,288,765,4456,930,018,215
20Malaysia PY 222139,165,109,7114,786,948,182
21United States Omega108,944,695,3003,395,501,609
22Ukraine DeadlyFire87,524,138,9592,347,969,406
23United Kingdom Majestic85,542,580,9471,907,172,827
24United States Razor_FX_II82,174,413,4842,074,502,554
Total (3610 users)25,551,552,356,925964,145,163,322

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Top 24 teams (Today)

#NameURLs
done
Data
(MB)
1Ukraine1,147,089,48475,988,934
2Pirate Party International.933,377,18060,814,860
3SETI.Germany614,223,38938,228,137
4XtremeSystems335,823,33621,666,235
5Team Norway69,091,8834,400,018
6Rechenkraft.net36,024,7022,390,853
7BOINC@Australia19,426,7201,293,088
8Brony@Home15,246,5461,038,778
9Hungarian Geek Alliance11,221,684757,813
10Free-DC6,341,263438,389
11Ars Technica2,759,319190,916
12Dutch Power Cows2,586,518184,906
13Czech Republic1,588,418110,999
14Crunching@EVGA828,71158,830
15Team UK370,04726,464
16Team Japan364,67326,789
17Free State Project108,3307,487
18Picard32,4701,927
Total3,196,504,673207,625,423
Top 24 teams (Overall)

#NameURLs
done
Data
(MB)
1Pirate Party International.4,307,216,956,835181,676,684,532
2Ukraine4,037,361,919,445201,518,429,015
3SETI.Germany3,143,598,315,820136,932,288,943
4Team Iowa2,642,552,795,233100,407,051,287
5Team Norway1,105,443,603,17941,879,780,132
6Rechenkraft.net412,063,438,06917,514,821,287
7XtremeSystems332,533,252,06012,812,638,524
8Free-DC62,881,170,6642,880,905,331
9Hungarian Geek Alliance51,805,213,0751,957,631,445
10IGA44,804,544,7521,453,338,188
11Dutch Power Cows27,864,962,1041,002,800,545
12Wiki4Games.com21,724,832,164838,977,419
13X Grubbers Kick Ass18,845,814,112720,467,401
14OcUK18,248,387,213581,751,867
15Czech Republic17,821,896,768713,840,718
16Brony@Home17,218,691,538955,122,721
17BOINC@Australia15,119,139,914746,677,949
18Russian_User_Team9,046,859,798327,366,082
19Team Canada5,985,771,854220,109,142
20Belgium5,955,641,928207,051,251
21BOINC Synergy5,512,633,331224,142,349
22Ars Technica4,891,163,344228,578,298
23Crunching@EVGA3,770,390,789166,264,201
24TeAm AnandTech3,590,317,018126,846,392
Total (51 teams)16,327,024,248,482706,093,565,019

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Last updated: 20 Apr 2026 23:04:28:880 GMT


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