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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)
1elvis1556,615,50532,581,563
2Germany nemercry502,299,14230,249,226
3Germany Pr0vieH344,455,30520,202,966
4Ukraine tiss292,494,54018,743,964
5Ukraine UA_ReMMeR145,293,9929,291,553
6Germany BalouTheNavigator24,601,2501,454,557
7Germany GrafZahl20,760,5101,309,084
8Hong Kong SAR hixie20,234,8991,188,058
9Germany |MatMan|18,310,9311,103,933
10Australia Jonathan Ferguson18,294,086977,538
11Germany Nitmeare14,060,632858,028
12batkerson11,906,512668,979
13Netherlands Smiba10,212,414639,967
14Hungary MJster8,265,181531,138
15Germany rw20075,729,376383,757
16strafteter3,912,101251,561
17United States sTs9503,744,142225,565
18Ukraine absolut2,191,361131,478
19Germany WoM1,580,810106,663
20Germany Andreas388711,574,878105,254
21Czech Republic Celebrindol1,287,84688,887
22Netherlands Junkbuster1,033,64070,948
23United States neo871,28455,211
24Norway steinrar811,20048,837
Total (39 users)2,013,598,121121,487,612
Top 24 users (Overall)

#NickURLs
done
Data
(MB)
1Germany nemercry4,768,598,874,374197,604,853,607
2Germany Pr0vieH3,554,769,704,361149,254,434,758
3United States serverninjas3,519,282,870,242124,480,600,905
4Ukraine tiss2,654,761,313,158123,943,456,790
5Ukraine UA_ReMMeR1,827,023,090,26893,034,092,436
6Finland refic1,349,076,621,93840,463,973,818
7United Kingdom Majestic12722,262,440,65321,219,409,970
8elvis1651,344,983,15121,267,977,356
9Switzerland rauppe31612,077,149,65516,700,218,297
10Germany Norman_RKN569,566,469,14713,899,058,485
11Germany Nitmeare501,982,712,39512,986,972,264
12Germany |MatMan|380,792,074,54814,917,071,415
13Norway steinrar377,337,938,83317,326,639,039
14Germany BalouTheNavigator339,355,796,74410,990,695,621
15Ukraine smilesvua314,634,307,1268,384,894,298
16Austria Fusl288,497,148,9147,238,959,661
17Belgium elhoim277,275,051,7397,478,279,984
18strafteter273,360,235,19912,785,420,120
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 DeadlyFire87,551,968,5582,349,938,159
23United Kingdom Majestic85,542,580,9471,907,172,827
24United States Razor_FX_II82,174,413,4842,074,502,554
Total (3610 users)25,700,766,944,053973,536,714,746

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Top 24 teams (Today)

#NameURLs
done
Data
(MB)
1XtremeSystems576,970,59233,777,805
2Pirate Party International.516,359,77431,107,254
3Ukraine440,000,93228,168,453
4SETI.Germany344,455,30520,202,966
5Rechenkraft.net31,988,4062,050,740
6BOINC@Australia18,294,086977,538
7Brony@Home10,212,414639,967
8Hungarian Geek Alliance8,265,181531,138
9Free-DC5,324,952332,228
10Czech Republic1,287,84688,887
11Dutch Power Cows1,033,64070,948
12Crunching@EVGA871,28455,211
13Team Norway811,20048,837
14Ars Technica756,99353,435
15Team Japan685,99547,800
16[H]ard|OCP196,41111,549
17Team UK133,9458,548
18Free State Project98,1836,112
19BOINC Synergy52,6523,791
20Picard30,3521,284
Total1,957,830,143118,184,491
Top 24 teams (Overall)

#NameURLs
done
Data
(MB)
1Pirate Party International.4,263,081,173,048181,342,212,242
2Ukraine4,049,026,157,565203,349,770,326
3SETI.Germany3,145,434,607,517137,697,175,114
4Team Iowa2,576,421,828,15198,320,430,179
5Team Norway1,104,169,299,40841,861,789,452
6Rechenkraft.net387,112,826,06116,902,628,887
7XtremeSystems348,545,218,59314,202,939,512
8Free-DC61,883,745,6152,858,490,899
9Hungarian Geek Alliance47,884,425,8451,849,065,240
10IGA39,336,150,3281,275,236,014
11Dutch Power Cows25,822,859,503936,273,290
12Wiki4Games.com20,823,790,458812,546,829
13Brony@Home17,855,558,4621,001,494,047
14OcUK17,231,836,414549,749,324
15Czech Republic16,977,546,967689,594,696
16X Grubbers Kick Ass16,143,916,795630,422,874
17BOINC@Australia16,030,687,964806,017,356
18Russian_User_Team6,352,237,246241,055,687
19Belgium5,955,641,928207,051,251
20Team Canada5,913,490,845217,678,534
21BOINC Synergy5,188,535,292213,373,997
22Ars Technica4,649,596,490224,142,837
23Crunching@EVGA3,722,884,183165,926,855
24TeAm AnandTech3,353,387,422118,791,889
Total (51 teams)16,199,167,805,357706,473,857,331

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Last updated: 09 Jun 2026 18:04:30:603 GMT


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