MJ12node

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 and distributed.net.

The project was founded in late 2004 by Alex Chudnovsky. Majestic-12 is developing a search engine scalable to billions of web pages that is based on support by the community. Since the task of building a World Wide Web search engine is so huge, that it has been chosen to make Majestic-12 Distributed Search Engine based on the concept of distributed computing. The idea being that many machines work on one task to get it done quicker than one large machine alone. One of the biggest challenges with the search engins is actually getting billions of pages, and to do this cost effectively it has been created a client software called MJ12node that can be run on otherwise idle computers. This concept was used successfully by projects like SETI@HOME and distributed.net.