Searchable portal for the Everquest Archives

[Dolalin]

Some may be aware that I do a lot of research.

Over the course of the past two years I've collected over 4 million files while dumping Everquest-related websites, deprecated Yahoo Groups mailing lists, and more.

Making these easily searchable has been a constant puzzle. But I've now been able to leverage Azure Cognitive Services and Azure Cognitive Search to create a searchable portal to the eq archives.

Presenting, the Everquest Archives search portal:

https://eqarchives.azurewebsites.net/

So far I have been able to index 335,000 of the 4 million files, including all the Yahoo Groups mailing lists. They are context-searchable and metadata fields will give you links to the original Wayback Machine archive link.

Indexing the archives is proving expensive, so I will be soliciting donations at a future time to continue the process. For now, you can enjoy the 335,000 indexed documents, which include the Sony boards, EQ Stratics, Casters Realm, and a few others (alphabetically, the contents of /websites/ in the Git archive up to the letter E).

Let me know what you think!