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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 tiss735,91349,387
2Ukraine UA_ReMMeR710,82441,779
3Germany Pr0vieH629,08232,751
4Germany nemercry553,28230,578
5strafteter143,6718,565
6Germany |MatMan|74,3795,115
7Germany Nitmeare46,2402,622
8Norway steinrar45,1152,939
9Germany BalouTheNavigator34,8092,245
10Netherlands Smiba29,5831,496
11Malaysia PY 22219,702811
12Australia Jonathan Ferguson14,6201,199
13batkerson13,9861,125
14United Kingdom Majestic1211,5461,134
15Hong Kong SAR hixie8,702339
16Hungary MJster7,690378
17elvis17,639561
18Germany rw20077,408642
19Germany WoM3,666146
20Netherlands Junkbuster3,627252
21Ukraine absolut3,61785
22United States sTs9503,454171
23Netherlands Antilles BlisteringSheep1,93686
24Togo bitmaster1,801195
Total (26 users)3,115,514184,849
Top 24 users (Overall)

#NickURLs
done
Data
(MB)
1Germany nemercry4,521,993,110,598181,225,760,676
2United States serverninjas3,519,282,870,242124,480,600,905
3Germany Pr0vieH3,408,851,380,330140,004,105,715
4Ukraine tiss2,441,929,061,263109,494,416,992
5Ukraine UA_ReMMeR1,701,418,322,68484,590,673,822
6Finland refic1,349,076,621,93840,463,973,818
7United Kingdom Majestic12720,194,264,07721,030,050,417
8Switzerland rauppe31612,077,149,65516,700,218,297
9elvis1603,495,000,33518,239,207,937
10Germany Norman_RKN569,102,148,19213,866,193,601
11Germany Nitmeare495,863,495,43612,593,299,269
12Germany |MatMan|362,436,334,92913,776,178,485
13Norway steinrar352,772,820,33115,717,233,492
14Germany BalouTheNavigator329,074,043,50410,306,523,201
15Ukraine smilesvua314,634,307,1268,384,894,298
16Austria Fusl288,497,148,9147,238,959,661
17Belgium elhoim277,275,051,7397,478,279,984
18strafteter253,949,080,76211,538,986,443
19Belgium bruno28225,288,765,4456,930,018,215
20Malaysia PY 222135,740,219,9134,546,791,162
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)24,792,891,816,901913,531,584,520

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Top 24 teams (Today)

#NameURLs
done
Data
(MB)
1Ukraine1,450,35491,251
2SETI.Germany629,08232,751
3Pirate Party International.599,52233,200
4Rechenkraft.net151,0799,207
5Team Norway45,1152,939
6Brony@Home29,5831,496
7Free-DC26,8221,128
8XtremeSystems16,341900
9BOINC@Australia14,6201,199
10Hungarian Geek Alliance7,690378
11Dutch Power Cows3,627252
12Ars Technica1,93686
13Team Japan1,801195
14Czech Republic1,695143
15Free State Project1,527105
Total2,980,794175,230
Top 24 teams (Overall)

#NameURLs
done
Data
(MB)
1Pirate Party International.4,431,657,084,461178,363,469,967
2Ukraine4,027,737,796,582190,781,798,830
3SETI.Germany3,085,924,164,178131,334,564,293
4Team Iowa2,931,825,454,908109,501,718,506
5Team Norway1,110,879,011,46841,237,471,597
6Rechenkraft.net530,328,614,61619,974,146,151
7XtremeSystems393,031,709,10513,945,555,154
8IGA73,039,687,2512,383,502,814
9Free-DC64,177,831,4962,729,792,547
10Hungarian Geek Alliance63,983,360,1032,235,232,556
11Dutch Power Cows31,601,238,0331,114,518,976
12X Grubbers Kick Ass25,928,512,224955,324,282
13Wiki4Games.com23,965,000,221911,904,273
14OcUK22,337,096,935713,502,928
15Czech Republic21,924,224,300827,909,254
16Russian_User_Team20,198,516,443692,137,877
17Brony@Home16,067,181,785756,283,199
18BOINC@Australia9,732,861,885401,772,698
19Belgium6,352,677,886220,478,293
20Team Canada6,301,893,871230,504,238
21Ars Technica5,814,430,362234,333,409
22BOINC Synergy5,649,807,506226,109,308
23TeAm AnandTech4,529,320,219158,234,041
24Crunching@EVGA4,379,267,810181,021,270
Total (51 teams)16,932,270,743,749700,111,286,461

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Last updated: 19 Jul 2025 00:04:15:990 GMT


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