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Majestic-12 gets onto the BBC
ADDED on 16TH: We have a much more significant article today after the news came to our offices and did a article. Have a look from 7 mins 15 seconds at THIS LINK over the next seven days.
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We were delighted to hear ourselves mentioned on the BBC on one of their news programmes.
We were described as “an amazing success story to rival Google”. We wouldn’t exactly describe ourselves as rivals to Google, but we do have an awful lot of data… it;s just rather different to theirs! We are indeed pretty pleased with the progress to date and are happy to be called “an amazing success story” though. Matthew highlighted us when the presenter asked what the very best example of a start-up was in the science park. The park in itself a center for technology incubation excellence, so being the best of the best is high praise indeed.
I don’t know if we are allowed to embed BBC video, so here’s a link to it. We get mentioned in the article that starts at 13 minutes 53 seconds in, by Matthew Hidderley, who manges the science park here in Birmingham.
Hey – no link from them to us… but that just goes to show that a link is not always about the blue underlined anchor texts. We’ll happily take that as an endorsement for now.
There really is an award
Earlier this week I went to collect our recent award at a dinner in Park Lane. We are very proud of what we have achieved so far at MajesticSEO, so I hope you do not mind if we show it off – just to prove we won it:
Since the award was announced in 2010, the 2009 is a little misleading, but we are very grateful to eConsultancy for the recognition.
Dixon and Alex.
Majestic-SEO Secures Investment Partner
With most of the world still in a state of disarray economically and other companies in the tech-sector finding fund raising hard, we are absolutely delighted to be able to announce that we have received undisclosed but substantial investment from Dutch investor Rene van Mullem. Here’s the official press release:
Majestic-SEO Secures Investment Partner
Majestic-12 Ltd, owners of link tools of MajesticSEO has secured undisclosed but substantial funding from a Dutch investor.
Birmingham, UK (PRWeb UK) 25 January 2010 — Majestic-12 Ltd, owners of the link tools at MajesticSEO has secured undisclosed but substantial funding from Dutch investor Rene van Mullem, the founder of leading Dutch classified website Marktplaats.nl which was bought by Ebay for 225 mln euros.
Majestic-12 Ltd is a technology company based in Birmingham Science Park – Aston (United Kingdom), that has produced an independent map of the way pages link to each other on the web.
Majestic-12 has used distributed crawlers run by a team of volunteers on hundreds of PCs around the world to produce this database of links, known as a web graph. This web graph has a number of commercial applications, notably in part understanding how modern day search algorithms interpret and prioritize web pages. The database includes anchor text in multiple international character sets and companies can interrogate the database from a web based interface for monthly subscriptions starting at £10 (12 Euros) a month, or through an API by agreement.
Majestic-12 was founded by Alex Chudnovsky in 2004 and had been crawling the internet for several years already prior to launching their web based initiative in 2008. In 2009 Majestic-SEO increased its prominence in the search industry, bringing Dixon Jones from Receptional on board to help bring the product to market.
Majestic-SEO has earmarked the investment to further develop its infrastructure in 2010. This investment will see Majestic significantly step up its crawl and indexing rates and bring down our datacrawl update time significantly. Alex Chudnovsky remarked, “Even though we have already been reindexing monthly for the several months, we can improve this further. In addition, this funding will allow Majestic to accelerate its timeline, bringing more exciting products to market throughout 2010 and beyond.”
Press Release Ends.
If you have come on in from the press release and want to know more about our technology and our milestones, here are a few places to start:
You can follow our progress – either here or live on Twitter.
For more information, contact Dixon Jones, Faraday Wharf, Holt Street, Birmingham Science Park Aston, B7 4BB. United Kingdom. Tel: +44(0)121 2505767.
MajesticSEO wins prestigious award
MajesticSEO are proud to announce that we have won first prize for technology innovation in SEO/Natural search, after being shortlisted in two categories in this year’s eConsultancy innovation awards,
What the judges said about the winner: “Services which help search marketers to understand and develop their link profile compared to competitors are essential to compete effectively in natural search. To create a link-[database] of the scale of MajesticSEO with accompanying tools to help marketers understand the importance of different links is a major innovation within SEO.”
Majestic SEO appoint Receptional to oversee worldwide marketing expansion
Majestic SEO announces today a partnership with Receptional in a long term agreement to market the largest commercially available database map of links on the Internet.
Majestic SEO has developed the largest index of links on the Internet through a distributed search engine over a four year period and now boasts an index that is estimated to three times the size of Search giant Yahoo, with 697 billion urls spidered compared to an unofficial estimate of 200 billion urls indexed by Yahoo. Google is believed to have reached a trillion (1,000 billion) URLs.
Majestic SEO’s database enables its customers to use the database to understand how web sites and affiliates link to competitors. The data is used to help understand how search engines rank one website above another and is also used for a variety of other competitor and market research tasks.
Receptional will work with Majestic SEO to develop agreements with both retail users and commercial users of its database. Receptional will also help to develop worldwide penetration of Majestic’s services including the USA. In the partnership arrangement, Receptional’s Dixon Jones will join Majestic SEO’s founder, Alex Chudnovsky, on the board of Majestic SEO limited. The agreement is designed to develop the business dramatically over several years. A website redesign and commercially available API are two of the first steps in developing Majestic SEO’s markets.