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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 nemercry658,365,88042,375,891
2Ukraine tiss573,522,28837,594,621
3Germany Pr0vieH452,419,38128,160,741
4Ukraine UA_ReMMeR293,950,93419,007,786
5Norway steinrar92,033,1465,726,442
6elvis174,674,2794,740,487
7Germany |MatMan|34,273,4992,133,354
8strafteter33,401,1592,027,542
9Hong Kong SAR hixie24,080,4081,546,796
10Germany GrafZahl20,936,0481,368,205
11Germany BalouTheNavigator19,832,4891,323,666
12Germany Nitmeare17,681,7671,140,078
13Australia Jonathan Ferguson14,958,694963,839
14Netherlands Smiba12,274,235845,054
15batkerson9,922,578645,315
16Hungary MJster9,111,101613,586
17Germany rw20076,460,055438,002
18Ukraine absolut3,731,064237,317
19Norway DanielH3,209,549210,403
20Germany WoM2,767,450189,610
21United States sTs9502,601,276182,559
22Germany Norman_RKN2,556,034173,628
23Germany Andreas388711,847,149130,058
24United Kingdom Hat Monster1,420,258101,241
Total (42 users)2,373,417,016152,397,080
Top 24 users (Overall)

#NickURLs
done
Data
(MB)
1Germany nemercry4,708,508,413,611193,759,200,113
2United States serverninjas3,519,282,870,242124,480,600,905
3Germany Pr0vieH3,510,816,209,879146,557,022,894
4Ukraine tiss2,602,690,134,769120,516,162,060
5Ukraine UA_ReMMeR1,801,472,842,83191,405,444,888
6Finland refic1,349,076,621,93840,463,973,818
7United Kingdom Majestic12722,194,261,51021,213,630,076
8elvis1618,576,722,50419,246,308,796
9Switzerland rauppe31612,077,149,65516,700,218,297
10Germany Norman_RKN569,527,649,19013,896,355,863
11Germany Nitmeare500,179,976,44512,872,875,399
12Germany |MatMan|377,317,228,17314,698,292,697
13Norway steinrar373,352,129,59617,071,878,910
14Germany BalouTheNavigator336,986,314,70710,840,219,120
15Ukraine smilesvua314,634,307,1268,384,894,298
16Austria Fusl288,497,148,9147,238,959,661
17Belgium elhoim277,275,051,7397,478,279,984
18strafteter270,519,857,76012,608,514,772
19Belgium bruno28225,288,765,4456,930,018,215
20Malaysia PY 222139,165,109,7114,786,948,182
21United States Omega108,944,695,3003,395,501,609
22Ukraine DeadlyFire87,498,377,7882,346,113,204
23United Kingdom Majestic85,542,580,9471,907,172,827
24United States Razor_FX_II82,174,413,4842,074,502,554
Total (3610 users)25,460,007,370,348958,239,222,462

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Top 24 teams (Today)

#NameURLs
done
Data
(MB)
1Ukraine871,232,54656,841,542
2Pirate Party International.676,047,64743,515,969
3SETI.Germany452,419,38128,160,741
4XtremeSystems99,647,0946,349,555
5Team Norway95,242,6955,936,845
6Rechenkraft.net65,208,1064,138,177
7BOINC@Australia14,958,694963,839
8Brony@Home12,274,235845,054
9Hungarian Geek Alliance9,111,101613,586
10Free-DC5,368,726372,169
11Dutch Power Cows1,921,875132,104
12Ars Technica1,663,820118,478
13Czech Republic1,237,29183,720
14Team Japan690,45948,857
15Crunching@EVGA650,35943,663
16Team UK279,24117,101
17BOINC Synergy133,0159,752
18Free State Project89,8036,176
19Picard49,6552,912
Total2,308,225,743148,200,240
Top 24 teams (Overall)

#NameURLs
done
Data
(MB)
1Pirate Party International.4,327,989,303,684181,520,397,433
2Ukraine4,019,401,436,677199,853,377,918
3SETI.Germany3,133,563,110,498136,070,205,703
4Team Iowa2,682,004,582,391101,636,087,074
5Team Norway1,103,429,305,48441,711,725,982
6Rechenkraft.net424,356,717,57817,761,841,036
7XtremeSystems333,644,254,34412,691,684,029
8Free-DC63,303,716,4432,887,550,437
9Hungarian Geek Alliance53,096,463,3481,985,731,306
10IGA47,325,950,8281,534,951,585
11Dutch Power Cows29,009,084,6301,038,298,413
12Wiki4Games.com22,083,663,479849,558,200
13X Grubbers Kick Ass19,924,191,086755,285,959
14OcUK18,754,043,499597,471,025
15Czech Republic18,304,365,254727,363,311
16Brony@Home16,822,783,722925,119,239
17BOINC@Australia14,534,285,145707,680,465
18Russian_User_Team10,326,989,433367,871,069
19Team Canada6,019,751,643221,212,978
20Belgium5,955,641,928207,051,251
21BOINC Synergy5,636,933,002228,100,858
22Ars Technica5,012,228,709229,622,134
23Crunching@EVGA3,796,411,258166,080,081
24TeAm AnandTech3,684,492,197129,963,337
Total (51 teams)16,379,504,840,340704,804,230,823

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Last updated: 20 Mar 2026 18:04:55:527 GMT


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