UK Search Engine Takes on Google @ Birmingham Science Park Aston, UK Business Incubation (Dec 12) - mentioned in Altsearchengines
Majestic 12 is a web search engine developed in the UK - it uses distributed computing to crawl and index (like the SETI@Home project). It reports that it reached its 1 trillionith url - confirming Google's announcement of a year or more ago.
The engine itself will be of more interest to internet marketers than general searchers.
"The web map can be explored by visiting Majestic SEO, where anyone can get free data by verifying ownership of their web site. There is an option to compare the back-link history over time and find competitor data. The web interface is currently used by Internet marketing professionals for link building. "
Posted by Gwen at December 14, 2009 03:13 PM