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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 tiss213,741,37113,611,781
2Germany Pr0vieH153,374,4879,174,364
3Germany nemercry151,231,4079,368,308
4Ukraine UA_ReMMeR138,004,2408,787,114
5strafteter24,842,6411,478,562
6Norway steinrar21,912,4641,346,534
7Germany |MatMan|21,595,9861,208,802
8Germany BalouTheNavigator11,875,616781,893
9Netherlands Smiba11,414,241672,367
10Germany Nitmeare9,334,991541,920
11United Kingdom Majestic126,614,943564,883
12Australia Jonathan Ferguson5,605,961372,642
13Malaysia PY 2224,542,394301,644
14batkerson4,327,022282,087
15Hungary MJster3,660,197232,163
16Hong Kong SAR hixie2,810,070149,914
17Germany rw20072,210,326137,843
18Ukraine absolut1,372,86977,013
19United States sTs950979,24361,519
20Czech Republic Celebrindol617,30443,691
21Germany WoM550,77834,405
22Germany Andreas38871529,24233,002
23Netherlands Junkbuster302,12510,880
24Togo bitmaster263,77517,505
Total (38 users)793,448,81949,398,609
Top 24 users (Overall)

#NickURLs
done
Data
(MB)
1Germany nemercry4,531,482,029,128181,831,063,207
2United States serverninjas3,519,282,870,242124,480,600,905
3Germany Pr0vieH3,420,353,417,721140,725,165,546
4Ukraine tiss2,457,147,553,193110,503,541,412
5Ukraine UA_ReMMeR1,712,148,083,16485,303,406,540
6Finland refic1,349,076,621,93840,463,973,818
7United Kingdom Majestic12720,692,596,68521,074,866,491
8Switzerland rauppe31612,077,149,65516,700,218,297
9elvis1603,516,413,27718,240,687,466
10Germany Norman_RKN569,102,148,19213,866,193,601
11Germany Nitmeare496,580,437,86812,637,248,521
12Germany |MatMan|364,216,486,77213,885,562,778
13Norway steinrar354,111,721,97615,802,805,400
14Germany BalouTheNavigator329,862,196,85010,358,812,117
15Ukraine smilesvua314,634,307,1268,384,894,298
16Austria Fusl288,497,148,9147,238,959,661
17Belgium elhoim277,275,051,7397,478,279,984
18strafteter255,901,008,17111,660,764,914
19Belgium bruno28225,288,765,4456,930,018,215
20Malaysia PY 222136,100,203,6034,571,083,999
21United States Omega108,944,695,3003,395,501,609
22Ukraine DeadlyFire87,316,088,1572,332,760,324
23United Kingdom Majestic85,542,580,9471,907,172,827
24United States Razor_FX_II82,174,413,4842,074,502,554
Total (3610 users)24,849,773,877,982917,223,178,168

Customise!

Top 24 teams (Today)

#NameURLs
done
Data
(MB)
1Ukraine353,351,30322,485,802
2Pirate Party International.160,566,3989,910,228
3SETI.Germany153,374,4879,174,364
4Rechenkraft.net27,582,2091,649,407
5Team Norway21,912,4641,346,534
6Brony@Home11,414,241672,367
7Free-DC6,072,415397,568
8BOINC@Australia5,605,961372,642
9Hungarian Geek Alliance3,660,197232,163
10XtremeSystems3,272,907181,981
11Czech Republic617,30443,691
12Ars Technica399,34426,062
13Dutch Power Cows348,59113,719
14Team Japan263,77517,505
15Free State Project229,77513,628
16BOINC Synergy151,5499,426
17Picard30,8351,918
18TeAm AnandTech12,991782
Total748,866,74646,549,787
Top 24 teams (Overall)

#NameURLs
done
Data
(MB)
1Pirate Party International.4,416,397,886,189178,175,985,228
2Ukraine4,037,568,938,598191,975,072,282
3SETI.Germany3,092,529,655,954131,891,165,749
4Team Iowa2,915,183,296,864108,970,003,030
5Team Norway1,106,025,297,41141,124,646,453
6Rechenkraft.net521,958,651,12719,798,121,483
7XtremeSystems384,346,090,93513,668,609,007
8IGA70,315,854,6132,292,433,877
9Free-DC64,211,463,1222,747,027,855
10Hungarian Geek Alliance62,758,123,2222,204,340,806
11Dutch Power Cows31,512,985,2881,112,666,909
12X Grubbers Kick Ass25,454,872,423939,407,418
13Wiki4Games.com23,789,972,777906,085,734
14OcUK22,061,143,712704,364,082
15Czech Republic21,657,186,376820,803,086
16Russian_User_Team19,317,498,938662,861,224
17Brony@Home16,690,524,673796,781,348
18BOINC@Australia10,087,726,981426,859,297
19Team Canada6,292,250,514230,196,966
20Belgium6,050,920,947210,195,697
21Ars Technica5,738,514,026232,770,421
22BOINC Synergy5,654,364,720226,425,299
23TeAm AnandTech4,420,758,232154,646,167
24Crunching@EVGA4,279,479,383177,653,430
Total (51 teams)16,888,879,799,857700,449,122,848

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Last updated: 08 Aug 2025 07:02:54:457 GMT


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