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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 nemercry136,845,8399,064,909
2Ukraine tiss81,441,5785,433,135
3Ukraine UA_ReMMeR45,948,3523,049,359
4Germany Pr0vieH38,532,4062,507,950
5elvis117,142,8781,122,827
6Norway steinrar11,944,553762,829
7Germany BalouTheNavigator4,879,503329,402
8strafteter3,524,712225,775
9Netherlands Smiba3,338,395230,697
10Germany |MatMan|3,046,443189,964
11batkerson2,626,950170,387
12Germany GrafZahl2,378,480160,694
13Australia Jonathan Ferguson2,248,573144,925
14Hong Kong SAR hixie2,122,920132,698
15Malaysia PY 2222,089,763146,539
16Hungary MJster1,690,254113,330
17Germany Nitmeare1,687,011105,722
18Germany rw2007865,08662,875
19Ukraine absolut510,54131,591
20Norway DanielH506,86135,933
21Germany WoM432,84327,295
22Germany Norman_RKN392,71528,473
23United States sTs950350,86625,172
24Germany Andreas38871275,98919,224
Total (40 users)366,139,17124,214,380
Top 24 users (Overall)

#NickURLs
done
Data
(MB)
1Germany nemercry4,596,640,847,125186,293,304,402
2United States serverninjas3,519,282,870,242124,480,600,905
3Germany Pr0vieH3,452,979,482,774142,856,443,558
4Ukraine tiss2,523,671,803,891115,138,139,512
5Ukraine UA_ReMMeR1,756,970,793,01988,409,567,937
6Finland refic1,349,076,621,93840,463,973,818
7United Kingdom Majestic12722,108,860,26221,205,920,876
8Switzerland rauppe31612,077,149,65516,700,218,297
9elvis1609,402,453,47918,643,231,212
10Germany Norman_RKN569,121,332,96913,867,571,298
11Germany Nitmeare497,900,224,22212,723,381,546
12Germany |MatMan|371,955,865,89114,357,858,849
13Norway steinrar361,976,426,18516,328,175,904
14Germany BalouTheNavigator334,018,155,14710,642,098,338
15Ukraine smilesvua314,634,307,1268,384,894,298
16Austria Fusl288,497,148,9147,238,959,661
17Belgium elhoim277,275,051,7397,478,279,984
18strafteter264,945,804,92812,250,407,651
19Belgium bruno28225,288,765,4456,930,018,215
20Malaysia PY 222137,979,247,3494,704,688,849
21United States Omega108,944,695,3003,395,501,609
22Ukraine DeadlyFire87,413,693,6832,339,918,813
23United Kingdom Majestic85,542,580,9471,907,172,827
24United States Razor_FX_II82,174,413,4842,074,502,554
Total (3610 users)25,112,381,326,823935,143,551,625

Customise!

Top 24 teams (Today)

#NameURLs
done
Data
(MB)
1Pirate Party International.138,532,8509,170,631
2Ukraine127,913,9208,514,794
3SETI.Germany38,532,4062,507,950
4XtremeSystems19,389,2351,264,964
5Team Norway12,451,414798,762
6Rechenkraft.net7,436,982497,041
7Brony@Home3,338,395230,697
8Free-DC2,873,472199,006
9BOINC@Australia2,248,573144,925
10Hungarian Geek Alliance1,690,254113,330
11Ars Technica375,07227,483
12Czech Republic182,93714,523
13Team Japan119,9427,592
14Dutch Power Cows118,0135,424
15Crunching@EVGA106,6406,801
16Free State Project95,5806,498
17BOINC Synergy26,9251,879
18Picard3,911164
Total355,436,52123,512,464
Top 24 teams (Overall)

#NameURLs
done
Data
(MB)
1Pirate Party International.4,343,931,964,217178,182,305,122
2Ukraine3,993,506,329,602194,641,765,578
3SETI.Germany3,098,577,987,857133,138,963,756
4Team Iowa2,809,437,519,138105,654,520,466
5Team Norway1,096,110,447,08441,088,735,381
6Rechenkraft.net467,426,363,19818,662,578,201
7XtremeSystems347,756,858,27412,746,064,792
8Free-DC63,529,787,4012,825,845,016
9Hungarian Geek Alliance56,927,958,8092,065,145,558
10IGA56,697,097,5801,845,355,663
11Dutch Power Cows30,888,969,0601,096,706,878
12Wiki4Games.com22,878,744,959876,126,118
13X Grubbers Kick Ass22,479,900,214841,344,481
14OcUK20,274,638,185646,692,650
15Czech Republic19,984,751,192775,722,266
16Brony@Home18,263,631,076923,854,515
17Russian_User_Team14,268,307,581497,715,823
18BOINC@Australia12,655,838,049596,332,273
19Team Canada6,131,559,116224,908,087
20Belgium5,955,641,928207,051,251
21BOINC Synergy5,695,985,572229,446,005
22Ars Technica5,356,183,094230,114,890
23TeAm AnandTech3,944,381,617138,847,887
24Crunching@EVGA3,923,291,055167,254,990
Total (51 teams)16,539,444,498,344698,303,397,647

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Last updated: 05 Dec 2025 03:03:33:000 GMT


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