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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)
1Ukraine tiss857,349,04358,163,329
2Germany Pr0vieH605,639,03737,978,094
3Ukraine UA_ReMMeR598,820,46340,683,988
4Germany nemercry523,364,23533,830,996
5Germany |MatMan|104,811,6536,775,399
6strafteter90,862,8235,742,993
7Norway steinrar67,259,9064,396,657
8Germany Nitmeare40,786,1042,562,194
9Germany BalouTheNavigator38,766,1442,599,757
10Netherlands Smiba34,365,6222,161,987
11United Kingdom Majestic1226,088,3052,292,906
12batkerson21,280,7431,363,438
13Australia Jonathan Ferguson17,120,7701,206,478
14Malaysia PY 22214,519,420987,195
15Hungary MJster14,502,474998,424
16Hong Kong SAR hixie10,034,081585,242
17Germany rw20077,407,459504,886
18Ukraine absolut4,720,230277,292
19United States sTs9503,713,475252,169
20Germany WoM2,375,532164,370
21Czech Republic Celebrindol2,130,793149,261
22Germany Andreas388711,877,432128,886
23Netherlands Junkbuster1,456,25098,550
24Togo bitmaster946,83469,541
Total (38 users)3,094,664,900204,297,240
Top 24 users (Overall)

#NickURLs
done
Data
(MB)
1Germany nemercry4,519,826,981,716181,087,694,141
2United States serverninjas3,519,282,870,242124,480,600,905
3Germany Pr0vieH3,406,356,132,190139,847,614,078
4Ukraine tiss2,438,403,784,099109,257,079,848
5Ukraine UA_ReMMeR1,698,978,122,07384,426,056,668
6Finland refic1,349,076,621,93840,463,973,818
7United Kingdom Majestic12720,085,195,34621,020,444,743
8Switzerland rauppe31612,077,149,65516,700,218,297
9elvis1603,484,447,01218,238,483,318
10Germany Norman_RKN569,102,148,19213,866,193,601
11Germany Nitmeare495,694,964,24012,582,824,664
12Germany |MatMan|362,034,127,10613,751,395,073
13Norway steinrar352,495,486,86815,699,602,457
14Germany BalouTheNavigator328,916,655,76410,295,905,059
15Ukraine smilesvua314,634,307,1268,384,894,298
16Austria Fusl288,497,148,9147,238,959,661
17Belgium elhoim277,275,051,7397,478,279,984
18strafteter253,522,544,78111,512,116,792
19Belgium bruno28225,288,765,4456,930,018,215
20Malaysia PY 222135,668,657,1394,541,929,138
21United States Omega108,944,695,3003,395,501,609
22Ukraine DeadlyFire87,314,083,0132,332,620,226
23United Kingdom Majestic85,542,580,9471,907,172,827
24United States Razor_FX_II82,174,413,4842,074,502,554
Total (3610 users)24,780,137,215,996912,696,617,736

Customise!

Top 24 teams (Today)

#NameURLs
done
Data
(MB)
1Ukraine1,461,241,35399,149,462
2SETI.Germany605,639,03737,978,094
3Pirate Party International.564,150,33936,393,190
4Rechenkraft.net100,172,3826,378,719
5Team Norway67,259,9064,396,657
6Brony@Home34,365,6222,161,987
7Free-DC20,608,4271,403,734
8BOINC@Australia17,120,7701,206,478
9Hungarian Geek Alliance14,502,474998,424
10XtremeSystems10,749,583639,236
11Czech Republic2,130,793149,261
12Dutch Power Cows1,606,636108,170
13Ars Technica1,282,60794,667
14Team Japan946,83469,541
15Free State Project803,61157,538
16BOINC Synergy306,37321,194
17TeAm AnandTech208,89914,875
18Majestic Finland110,3637,631
Total2,903,206,009191,228,858
Top 24 teams (Overall)

#NameURLs
done
Data
(MB)
1Pirate Party International.4,434,008,218,450178,367,553,080
2Ukraine4,024,878,476,979190,480,583,493
3SETI.Germany3,084,559,052,379131,215,858,422
4Team Iowa2,935,259,405,228109,611,136,833
5Team Norway1,112,135,159,64741,269,042,762
6Rechenkraft.net531,621,682,16819,996,615,144
7XtremeSystems394,714,929,98913,999,045,113
8IGA73,199,028,1052,388,757,574
9Hungarian Geek Alliance64,255,873,1942,241,988,759
10Free-DC64,190,596,8992,726,919,652
11Dutch Power Cows31,628,561,0261,115,232,959
12X Grubbers Kick Ass26,031,777,355958,806,085
13Wiki4Games.com24,003,333,176913,169,385
14OcUK22,399,959,357715,569,155
15Czech Republic21,979,215,345829,354,834
16Russian_User_Team20,416,603,332699,346,583
17Brony@Home15,957,168,602748,631,945
18BOINC@Australia9,661,309,805396,588,505
19Belgium6,426,115,403222,868,715
20Team Canada6,304,729,922230,592,373
21Ars Technica5,832,241,245234,717,877
22BOINC Synergy5,648,815,342226,040,981
23TeAm AnandTech4,544,263,349158,706,674
24Crunching@EVGA4,407,585,368181,972,276
Total (51 teams)16,939,045,398,555699,929,099,179

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Last updated: 14 Jul 2025 23:04:10:580 GMT


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