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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 nemercry151,553,82510,188,192
2Ukraine tiss101,364,9506,974,134
3Germany Pr0vieH62,779,9334,042,820
4Ukraine UA_ReMMeR58,450,5863,930,576
5elvis120,443,8111,349,095
6Norway steinrar13,404,121876,505
7strafteter7,869,249513,676
8Germany |MatMan|5,192,962292,575
9Germany BalouTheNavigator3,783,839257,488
10batkerson3,010,876200,526
11Germany GrafZahl2,846,343196,649
12Netherlands Smiba2,575,859175,534
13Hong Kong SAR hixie2,504,579154,052
14Malaysia PY 2222,431,011171,794
15Germany Nitmeare2,178,086138,179
16Hungary MJster1,756,044123,698
17Australia Jonathan Ferguson1,336,15687,770
18Germany rw2007966,95367,027
19Ukraine absolut720,58646,204
20Norway DanielH590,60342,430
21Germany Norman_RKN581,34843,089
22Germany WoM430,64129,241
23United States sTs950330,53724,131
24Germany Andreas38871305,92723,936
Total (41 users)448,831,47230,052,567
Top 24 users (Overall)

#NickURLs
done
Data
(MB)
1Germany nemercry4,615,192,515,024187,540,085,115
2United States serverninjas3,519,282,870,242124,480,600,905
3Germany Pr0vieH3,460,639,231,405143,348,054,771
4Ukraine tiss2,537,277,282,888116,065,162,491
5Ukraine UA_ReMMeR1,765,224,717,34088,965,753,269
6Finland refic1,349,076,621,93840,463,973,818
7United Kingdom Majestic12722,121,685,00321,207,055,336
8elvis1612,162,296,16618,826,334,886
9Switzerland rauppe31612,077,149,65516,700,218,297
10Germany Norman_RKN569,198,360,34013,872,992,182
11Germany Nitmeare498,195,739,94312,742,944,266
12Germany |MatMan|372,816,607,92714,409,930,948
13Norway steinrar363,783,418,74816,446,756,649
14Germany BalouTheNavigator334,529,192,00910,675,985,851
15Ukraine smilesvua314,634,307,1268,384,894,298
16Austria Fusl288,497,148,9147,238,959,661
17Belgium elhoim277,275,051,7397,478,279,984
18strafteter265,740,846,20012,302,305,578
19Belgium bruno28225,288,765,4456,930,018,215
20Malaysia PY 222138,280,760,1054,725,656,241
21United States Omega108,944,695,3003,395,501,609
22Ukraine DeadlyFire87,426,612,6042,340,843,736
23United Kingdom Majestic85,542,580,9471,907,172,827
24United States Razor_FX_II82,174,413,4842,074,502,554
Total (3610 users)25,170,336,558,057939,015,155,432

Customise!

Top 24 teams (Today)

#NameURLs
done
Data
(MB)
1Ukraine160,549,62510,952,028
2Pirate Party International.153,731,91110,326,371
3SETI.Germany62,779,9334,042,820
4XtremeSystems23,059,3221,510,602
5Team Norway13,994,724918,935
6Rechenkraft.net12,569,820844,377
7Free-DC3,192,189225,166
8Brony@Home2,575,859175,534
9Hungarian Geek Alliance1,756,044123,698
10BOINC@Australia1,336,15687,770
11Ars Technica436,60130,970
12Czech Republic205,09314,884
13Dutch Power Cows164,12411,580
14Team Japan122,4398,010
15Crunching@EVGA106,0577,829
16Free State Project99,9007,580
17Team UK22,7091,260
18BOINC Synergy11,3571,155
19Picard1,816140
Total436,715,67929,290,709
Top 24 teams (Overall)

#NameURLs
done
Data
(MB)
1Pirate Party International.4,343,051,968,198178,808,625,993
2Ukraine3,994,742,785,193195,456,157,653
3SETI.Germany3,103,560,593,176133,542,257,492
4Team Iowa2,793,147,660,423105,150,045,265
5Team Norway1,097,426,523,57941,194,611,842
6Rechenkraft.net461,541,638,96918,544,331,980
7XtremeSystems343,342,603,89712,706,988,941
8Free-DC63,676,510,0182,845,395,157
9Hungarian Geek Alliance56,473,685,8042,058,050,008
10IGA55,233,347,4701,797,329,620
11Dutch Power Cows30,808,320,7341,094,794,356
12Wiki4Games.com22,789,973,298873,204,491
13X Grubbers Kick Ass22,099,245,212828,698,911
14OcUK20,090,605,957640,806,842
15Czech Republic19,772,827,685769,860,963
16Brony@Home18,102,400,619927,600,111
17Russian_User_Team13,753,278,563480,983,633
18BOINC@Australia13,021,134,787618,009,152
19Team Canada6,115,571,702224,386,179
20Belgium5,955,641,928207,051,251
21BOINC Synergy5,699,437,574229,700,243
22Ars Technica5,333,808,875231,274,153
23Crunching@EVGA3,917,314,320167,570,115
24TeAm AnandTech3,906,991,725137,600,112
Total (52 teams)16,516,269,052,140699,535,334,463

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Last updated: 21 Dec 2025 03:04:17:990 GMT


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