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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 nemercry89,122,5775,875,835
2Ukraine tiss46,255,4063,142,012
3Germany Pr0vieH37,934,8032,473,020
4Ukraine UA_ReMMeR24,564,2411,666,125
5elvis16,488,585289,353
6Norway steinrar5,949,135395,901
7strafteter5,170,970327,998
8Germany |MatMan|3,255,412215,856
9Germany BalouTheNavigator2,363,287152,609
10Hong Kong SAR hixie2,198,984140,215
11Netherlands Smiba2,007,944139,479
12Germany GrafZahl1,923,649134,697
13batkerson1,728,807117,772
14Australia Jonathan Ferguson1,371,74677,775
15Germany Nitmeare1,349,88588,082
16Malaysia PY 2221,147,67176,461
17Hungary MJster1,049,38071,311
18Germany rw2007760,37252,689
19Germany WoM283,75622,061
20Ukraine absolut283,03116,698
21Norway DanielH269,10421,951
22Germany Norman_RKN215,83115,514
23Germany Andreas38871212,92713,564
24United States sTs950197,03014,117
Total (42 users)237,024,77215,606,515
Top 24 users (Overall)

#NickURLs
done
Data
(MB)
1Germany nemercry4,640,212,000,731189,211,390,896
2United States serverninjas3,519,282,870,242124,480,600,905
3Germany Pr0vieH3,471,899,632,611144,074,172,698
4Ukraine tiss2,554,120,452,489117,209,591,224
5Ukraine UA_ReMMeR1,775,213,522,51589,637,040,712
6Finland refic1,349,076,621,93840,463,973,818
7United Kingdom Majestic12722,139,612,61421,208,691,643
8elvis1615,179,087,11019,021,352,119
9Switzerland rauppe31612,077,149,65516,700,218,297
10Germany Norman_RKN569,291,451,17613,879,625,769
11Germany Nitmeare498,613,106,01412,770,239,508
12Germany |MatMan|373,993,675,91014,483,364,221
13Norway steinrar366,195,928,59116,604,036,569
14Germany BalouTheNavigator335,207,999,61810,721,194,387
15Ukraine smilesvua314,634,307,1268,384,894,298
16Austria Fusl288,497,148,9147,238,959,661
17Belgium elhoim277,275,051,7397,478,279,984
18strafteter266,416,082,45612,345,806,509
19Belgium bruno28225,288,765,4456,930,018,215
20Malaysia PY 222138,640,583,7624,750,660,642
21United States Omega108,944,695,3003,395,501,609
22Ukraine DeadlyFire87,444,378,2082,342,150,304
23United Kingdom Majestic85,542,580,9471,907,172,827
24United States Razor_FX_II82,174,413,4842,074,502,554
Total (3610 users)25,245,764,076,601944,029,097,774

Customise!

Top 24 teams (Today)

#NameURLs
done
Data
(MB)
1Pirate Party International.90,472,4625,963,917
2Ukraine71,110,9294,825,494
3SETI.Germany37,934,8032,473,020
4XtremeSystems8,779,180435,302
5Rechenkraft.net8,283,749544,462
6Team Norway6,218,239417,852
7Brony@Home2,007,944139,479
8Free-DC1,628,457112,639
9BOINC@Australia1,371,74677,775
10Hungarian Geek Alliance1,049,38071,311
11Ars Technica266,14320,012
12Czech Republic144,85510,174
13Dutch Power Cows112,9526,857
14Team Japan82,8066,694
15Crunching@EVGA77,3575,459
16Team UK23,1311,545
17BOINC Synergy5,887299
18Picard5,872269
19Free State Project5,866589
Total229,581,75815,113,149
Top 24 teams (Overall)

#NameURLs
done
Data
(MB)
1Pirate Party International.4,340,999,704,731179,605,532,470
2Ukraine4,001,171,108,359196,609,270,152
3SETI.Germany3,110,700,112,452134,129,901,411
4Team Iowa2,768,634,021,042104,381,267,088
5Team Norway1,099,034,678,44441,329,277,390
6Rechenkraft.net452,319,641,84918,330,078,032
7XtremeSystems340,640,685,67812,735,873,465
8Free-DC63,778,618,5072,866,309,513
9Hungarian Geek Alliance55,766,253,0932,044,796,775
10IGA53,359,292,3601,736,299,580
11Dutch Power Cows30,654,453,3061,090,763,958
12Wiki4Games.com22,657,181,223868,786,409
13X Grubbers Kick Ass21,434,152,693806,395,394
14OcUK19,808,509,502631,643,712
15Czech Republic19,444,169,932760,463,063
16Brony@Home17,752,408,197926,890,211
17BOINC@Australia13,563,557,502648,958,886
18Russian_User_Team12,973,867,980455,289,662
19Team Canada6,094,538,579223,682,718
20Belgium5,955,641,928207,051,251
21BOINC Synergy5,703,135,320229,972,425
22Ars Technica5,277,465,114231,526,366
23Crunching@EVGA3,886,163,253167,126,605
24TeAm AnandTech3,862,830,799136,105,515
Total (52 teams)16,487,893,367,679701,153,262,051

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Last updated: 12 Jan 2026 02:04:19:583 GMT


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