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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
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Data
(MB)
1Germany nemercry407,898,07926,400,838
2Ukraine tiss260,625,90317,192,038
3Germany Pr0vieH176,756,60710,931,929
4Ukraine UA_ReMMeR145,036,5049,426,150
5elvis137,814,5402,181,768
6Norway steinrar35,254,2282,245,876
7strafteter17,195,5541,069,893
8Germany |MatMan|12,066,630750,318
9Hong Kong SAR hixie9,448,990562,176
10Germany BalouTheNavigator9,287,027624,593
11Australia Jonathan Ferguson9,089,642505,491
12Germany GrafZahl7,433,675483,109
13Germany Nitmeare6,750,161439,713
14Netherlands Smiba4,970,748331,774
15batkerson4,698,587308,036
16Malaysia PY 2224,308,076298,922
17Hungary MJster4,245,466281,392
18Germany rw20072,757,924184,824
19Ukraine absolut1,846,959113,542
20Norway DanielH1,613,533114,073
21Germany Norman_RKN1,348,96893,688
22Germany WoM1,171,37278,912
23United States sTs950748,12852,300
24Germany Andreas38871744,92651,257
Total (42 users)1,165,985,87674,921,952
Top 24 users (Overall)

#NickURLs
done
Data
(MB)
1Germany nemercry4,638,198,229,368189,079,197,267
2United States serverninjas3,519,282,870,242124,480,600,905
3Germany Pr0vieH3,471,033,094,617144,018,918,095
4Ukraine tiss2,552,960,995,047117,131,448,300
5Ukraine UA_ReMMeR1,774,564,017,20989,593,809,368
6Finland refic1,349,076,621,93840,463,973,818
7United Kingdom Majestic12722,138,227,30421,208,571,117
8elvis1615,024,853,48819,013,646,962
9Switzerland rauppe31612,077,149,65516,700,218,297
10Germany Norman_RKN569,285,504,69713,879,202,754
11Germany Nitmeare498,576,279,30612,767,872,108
12Germany |MatMan|373,920,440,70914,478,637,094
13Norway steinrar366,042,205,80116,593,959,691
14Germany BalouTheNavigator335,155,079,30110,717,713,288
15Ukraine smilesvua314,634,307,1268,384,894,298
16Austria Fusl288,497,148,9147,238,959,661
17Belgium elhoim277,275,051,7397,478,279,984
18strafteter266,302,459,22012,338,626,692
19Belgium bruno28225,288,765,4456,930,018,215
20Malaysia PY 222138,616,215,2024,748,976,785
21United States Omega108,944,695,3003,395,501,609
22Ukraine DeadlyFire87,443,002,5182,342,047,789
23United Kingdom Majestic85,542,580,9471,907,172,827
24United States Razor_FX_II82,174,413,4842,074,502,554
Total (3610 users)25,240,197,650,930943,665,619,468

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Top 24 teams (Today)

#NameURLs
done
Data
(MB)
1Pirate Party International.414,648,24026,840,551
2Ukraine407,548,68226,734,243
3SETI.Germany176,756,60710,931,929
4XtremeSystems47,631,6352,768,416
5Team Norway36,867,7612,359,949
6Rechenkraft.net29,481,0471,882,771
7BOINC@Australia9,089,642505,491
8Free-DC6,227,576430,134
9Brony@Home4,970,748331,774
10Hungarian Geek Alliance4,245,466281,392
11Ars Technica582,98640,960
12Czech Republic542,37336,280
13Dutch Power Cows401,92827,421
14Team Japan313,29221,848
15Team UK124,2329,547
16Free State Project41,3472,673
17Picard29,4701,596
18BOINC Synergy26,5852,336
Total1,139,529,61773,209,311
Top 24 teams (Overall)

#NameURLs
done
Data
(MB)
1Pirate Party International.4,341,321,398,240179,549,265,039
2Ukraine4,001,330,883,833196,552,599,130
3SETI.Germany3,110,230,773,564134,088,147,340
4Team Iowa2,770,859,456,884104,451,733,505
5Team Norway1,098,948,906,20141,321,224,434
6Rechenkraft.net453,104,940,54818,346,714,108
7XtremeSystems340,915,426,24612,740,837,878
8Free-DC63,779,499,2452,865,121,166
9Hungarian Geek Alliance55,830,115,7692,046,157,782
10IGA53,516,686,2631,741,550,158
11Dutch Power Cows30,671,835,5541,091,256,795
12Wiki4Games.com22,669,534,237869,200,156
13X Grubbers Kick Ass21,473,428,921807,739,037
14OcUK19,827,196,185632,259,372
15Czech Republic19,474,840,960761,367,421
16Brony@Home17,787,603,974927,295,649
17BOINC@Australia13,523,957,503646,774,071
18Russian_User_Team13,045,971,760457,702,607
19Team Canada6,095,697,521223,722,056
20Belgium5,955,641,928207,051,251
21BOINC Synergy5,702,910,907229,954,787
22Ars Technica5,282,035,164231,468,793
23Crunching@EVGA3,889,271,426167,218,729
24TeAm AnandTech3,868,701,086136,305,595
Total (52 teams)16,491,550,128,891701,092,666,859

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Last updated: 10 Jan 2026 08:04:41:427 GMT


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