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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)
1elvis1520,486,43631,203,492
2Germany nemercry382,099,08923,651,212
3Ukraine tiss332,490,79521,369,848
4Germany Pr0vieH317,676,71818,824,446
5Ukraine UA_ReMMeR154,707,9439,885,957
6Hong Kong SAR hixie29,815,1841,701,570
7Germany BalouTheNavigator25,913,6341,576,244
8Germany |MatMan|21,685,8921,322,443
9Germany GrafZahl20,865,3921,326,625
10Germany Nitmeare16,539,9921,018,220
11Australia Jonathan Ferguson15,337,442973,464
12Netherlands Smiba11,898,173763,697
13Hungary MJster8,765,926571,647
14Norway steinrar8,697,163542,476
15batkerson7,033,856388,004
16Germany rw20076,002,258390,660
17United States sTs9503,757,205228,276
18strafteter3,466,174212,035
19Germany WoM1,794,382115,396
20Ukraine absolut1,578,66698,991
21Czech Republic Celebrindol1,342,57795,312
22United States neo966,28663,543
23Netherlands Junkbuster873,36939,115
24Togo bitmaster759,67051,978
Total (41 users)1,898,168,767116,670,955
Top 24 users (Overall)

#NickURLs
done
Data
(MB)
1Germany nemercry4,756,804,431,940196,884,730,248
2Germany Pr0vieH3,546,110,073,537148,741,023,770
3United States serverninjas3,519,282,870,242124,480,600,905
4Ukraine tiss2,645,467,034,959123,346,696,397
5Ukraine UA_ReMMeR1,822,523,798,54592,746,319,167
6Finland refic1,349,076,621,93840,463,973,818
7United Kingdom Majestic12722,246,213,03921,218,062,686
8elvis1638,795,419,99020,519,817,308
9Switzerland rauppe31612,077,149,65516,700,218,297
10Germany Norman_RKN569,566,469,14713,899,058,485
11Germany Nitmeare501,631,708,24412,965,455,406
12Germany |MatMan|380,178,678,98914,879,638,556
13Norway steinrar377,238,127,29717,320,469,086
14Germany BalouTheNavigator338,741,470,98710,953,114,013
15Ukraine smilesvua314,634,307,1268,384,894,298
16Austria Fusl288,497,148,9147,238,959,661
17Belgium elhoim277,275,051,7397,478,279,984
18strafteter273,296,283,65512,781,271,636
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 DeadlyFire87,549,447,4692,349,767,749
23United Kingdom Majestic85,542,580,9471,907,172,827
24United States Razor_FX_II82,174,413,4842,074,502,554
Total (3610 users)25,649,580,459,631970,399,918,420

Customise!

Top 24 teams (Today)

#NameURLs
done
Data
(MB)
1XtremeSystems550,449,05732,915,295
2Ukraine488,829,90231,358,171
3Pirate Party International.398,639,08124,669,432
4SETI.Germany317,676,71818,824,446
5Rechenkraft.net30,892,7471,966,765
6BOINC@Australia15,337,442973,464
7Brony@Home11,898,173763,697
8Team Norway9,010,186564,815
9Hungarian Geek Alliance8,765,926571,647
10Free-DC5,551,587343,672
11Czech Republic1,342,57795,312
12Crunching@EVGA966,28663,543
13Dutch Power Cows873,36939,115
14Ars Technica786,92454,328
15Team Japan759,67051,978
16[H]ard|OCP197,03713,135
17Free State Project105,0667,086
18Team UK99,8525,598
19BOINC Synergy85,5355,729
20Picard21,7841,186
Total1,842,288,919113,288,414
Top 24 teams (Overall)

#NameURLs
done
Data
(MB)
1Pirate Party International.4,282,257,646,463181,658,583,405
2Ukraine4,048,173,029,002202,902,089,977
3SETI.Germany3,146,725,703,962137,523,439,809
4Team Iowa2,602,848,550,75999,155,453,169
5Team Norway1,104,803,499,29441,879,943,353
6Rechenkraft.net397,346,429,19717,165,595,424
7XtremeSystems342,560,112,32913,664,730,603
8Free-DC62,279,341,2382,868,370,477
9Hungarian Geek Alliance49,731,747,6031,904,147,526
10IGA41,179,140,2521,336,564,381
11Dutch Power Cows26,592,035,014962,295,485
12Wiki4Games.com21,157,574,795822,567,356
13OcUK17,664,047,197563,386,911
14Brony@Home17,634,844,829985,442,786
15Czech Republic17,318,202,765699,781,043
16X Grubbers Kick Ass17,084,332,029662,601,292
17BOINC@Australia15,662,333,724783,241,554
18Russian_User_Team7,353,585,789273,762,017
19Belgium5,955,641,928207,051,251
20Team Canada5,941,350,782218,645,363
21BOINC Synergy5,324,484,711218,039,120
22Ars Technica4,745,615,009226,781,457
23Crunching@EVGA3,727,456,140165,346,881
24TeAm AnandTech3,446,894,798122,053,143
Total (51 teams)16,258,116,937,094706,969,913,783

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Last updated: 21 May 2026 19:04:22:370 GMT


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