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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 nemercry907,493,37160,592,500
2Ukraine tiss632,480,79643,266,263
3Germany Pr0vieH523,846,46833,599,771
4Ukraine UA_ReMMeR350,037,74623,593,295
5Norway steinrar99,275,9086,496,225
6elvis152,949,9703,355,461
7Germany |MatMan|43,494,3062,839,288
8strafteter34,242,8102,208,079
9Germany Nitmeare28,858,3391,900,132
10Hong Kong SAR hixie26,847,1381,698,555
11Germany GrafZahl23,039,3621,604,816
12Germany BalouTheNavigator21,232,3591,476,144
13batkerson15,650,818954,211
14Malaysia PY 22214,550,8101,038,553
15Netherlands Smiba11,275,075795,078
16Hungary MJster10,873,172744,033
17Germany rw20077,501,632520,595
18Australia Jonathan Ferguson4,981,717351,042
19United States sTs9504,071,314282,367
20Germany Norman_RKN3,309,388237,666
21Ukraine absolut3,059,788194,995
22Germany WoM3,044,961211,904
23Czech Republic Celebrindol1,419,737106,110
24Netherlands Junkbuster991,67667,529
Total (40 users)2,829,724,777188,528,868
Top 24 users (Overall)

#NickURLs
done
Data
(MB)
1Germany nemercry4,684,201,049,918192,143,607,391
2United States serverninjas3,519,282,870,242124,480,600,905
3Germany Pr0vieH3,495,598,640,917145,592,337,703
4Ukraine tiss2,584,170,915,924119,260,097,442
5Ukraine UA_ReMMeR1,791,849,573,47790,761,510,929
6Finland refic1,349,076,621,93840,463,973,818
7United Kingdom Majestic12722,173,009,80321,211,713,743
8elvis1616,390,033,44419,102,607,922
9Switzerland rauppe31612,077,149,65516,700,218,297
10Germany Norman_RKN569,443,401,06113,890,385,707
11Germany Nitmeare499,538,293,28112,830,959,901
12Germany |MatMan|376,101,441,54614,620,055,688
13Norway steinrar370,415,969,56916,881,471,388
14Germany BalouTheNavigator336,380,232,49410,799,947,072
15Ukraine smilesvua314,634,307,1268,384,894,298
16Austria Fusl288,497,148,9147,238,959,661
17Belgium elhoim277,275,051,7397,478,279,984
18strafteter269,192,821,64712,524,990,045
19Belgium bruno28225,288,765,4456,930,018,215
20Malaysia PY 222138,892,049,7164,768,084,504
21United States Omega108,944,695,3003,395,501,609
22Ukraine DeadlyFire87,477,447,2972,344,568,068
23United Kingdom Majestic85,542,580,9471,907,172,827
24United States Razor_FX_II82,174,413,4842,074,502,554
Total (3610 users)25,379,229,200,106952,903,641,389

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Top 24 teams (Today)

#NameURLs
done
Data
(MB)
1Ukraine985,638,29967,058,209
2Pirate Party International.936,351,71062,492,632
3SETI.Germany523,846,46833,599,771
4Team Norway99,275,9086,496,225
5XtremeSystems80,815,4905,128,057
6Rechenkraft.net68,117,0344,572,951
7Free-DC21,667,0851,532,824
8Brony@Home11,275,075795,078
9Hungarian Geek Alliance10,873,172744,033
10BOINC@Australia4,981,717351,042
11Ars Technica1,671,523119,529
12Czech Republic1,419,737106,110
13Dutch Power Cows991,67667,529
14Crunching@EVGA761,14257,465
15Team UK191,08012,191
16BOINC Synergy142,4068,887
17Free State Project112,9808,886
18Picard38,3672,146
Total2,748,170,869183,153,565
Top 24 teams (Overall)

#NameURLs
done
Data
(MB)
1Pirate Party International.4,335,885,640,474180,943,713,026
2Ukraine4,008,982,489,808198,528,171,067
3SETI.Germany3,124,602,817,837135,317,231,564
4Team Iowa2,716,301,778,514102,734,037,121
5Team Norway1,101,655,818,43341,558,657,033
6Rechenkraft.net435,370,458,31417,998,362,760
7XtremeSystems335,009,413,77712,634,313,593
8Free-DC63,350,652,8642,872,272,618
9Hungarian Geek Alliance54,071,310,7622,006,945,609
10IGA49,755,149,2161,616,421,491
11Dutch Power Cows30,080,178,1201,073,414,889
12Wiki4Games.com22,343,709,354858,294,810
13X Grubbers Kick Ass20,351,630,007769,734,319
14OcUK19,169,074,137610,916,739
15Czech Republic18,761,247,315740,706,451
16Brony@Home17,086,175,337924,269,367
17BOINC@Australia14,231,056,487687,054,104
18Russian_User_Team11,276,178,802399,105,126
19Team Canada6,049,235,326222,194,963
20Belgium5,955,641,928207,051,251
21BOINC Synergy5,708,474,334230,367,224
22Ars Technica5,116,498,446230,622,200
23Crunching@EVGA3,824,406,887166,320,060
24TeAm AnandTech3,753,981,049132,354,661
Total (51 teams)16,420,504,638,837703,462,532,046

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Last updated: 22 Feb 2026 21:04:26:233 GMT


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