Tagged “web-search”
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Grounding on a corpus you don't own
Swap a vector index for a live search retriever and you lose curation. Here's what curation was doing, and how to get the important parts back.
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Answer boxes are somebody else's extraction
A featured snippet is already an answer. Treating it as a retrieved source means grounding your generation on an extraction you didn't perform.
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When the retriever is a search API
A RAG system doesn't have to retrieve from a vector index. Here's what the R stage looks like when it's an HTTP query to a search engine.