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Working reference

Find the answer, then return to the search.

Filter the topics below. Each one names the normal path and the honest failure state.

From request to result list

What happens after you search

The result list is always the primary answer surface. The companion can change state without hiding or reordering it.

  1. First

    The request is checked against this deployment’s vertical. A request that tries to escape that boundary is refused.

  2. Then

    The owned corpus is searched first. If that retrieval is unavailable, the search shows the failure instead of inventing material.

  3. Next

    An external index is consulted only when coverage or freshness requires it. If expansion fails, owned results remain and the limitation is named.

  4. Finally

    Eligible material is merged into one organic list. The list remains intact when the cited companion streams, abstains, is disabled, or fails.

One combined contract

Narrow without leaving the vertical

Each row explains what the filter accepts and what it refuses to infer.

Limits results to material with a usable publication date inside the chosen interval. It does not manufacture a date for undated material.

Narrows by Acervo’s first-party domain assessment. It does not borrow another company’s metric or turn an unmeasured domain into a measured one.

Uses the recorded site classification. It does not infer a classification from a page’s appearance during the search.

Narrows by the indexed language. It does not translate material or claim a language that has not been recorded.

Uses recorded country context. It does not guess a location from a domain name or from the person searching.

Applies explicit domain boundaries. Inclusion cannot override the deployment’s vertical, and a domain cannot be included and excluded in the same request.

  • The filters combine with one another.
  • The same contract applies in the interface and the API.
  • Narrowing never expands the configured vertical.

Claim to result

Read the companion through its evidence

  • Every supported claim is bound to the result that supports it. Open that result to inspect the source.
  • When the retrieved evidence is insufficient, the companion says: The retrieved evidence does not support an answer.
  • Streaming, answered, abstained, disabled, and failed states leave the organic result list unaffected.

claim slot

cited result slot

open source

First-party and explainable

What Acervo authority means

It is this deployment’s assessment of a domain. It exposes the observable contributions behind the assessment and when they were measured. It is never named after another company’s metric.

assessment state

not measured

When no assessment exists, Acervo prints absence instead of converting it into a score. The Why this score control on a result row opens the domain page.

  • contribution
  • observation · source
  • confidence
  • Measured {date}

Personal activity and shared corpus

Know which material is yours

Private to your account

  • Queries and search history
  • Collections and saved searches
  • Personal service-key usage

Shared across this deployment

  • Admitted documents
  • Domain assessments
  • Corpus coverage

Shared analytics never carries query text.

  • Export or delete history/history
  • Manage collections/collections
  • Manage saved searches/saved-searches
  • Account and privacy controls/settings
  • Full privacy terms/privacy

Correction intake

Report a result with its evidence

  1. Filed

    The report is recorded with the evidence and the result or assessment it concerns.

  2. Review

    This deployment’s staff adjudicates the report. A report can trigger a new domain measurement.

  3. Decision

    A report does not guarantee an outcome. The decision is recorded.

This control is available on a result row, where the result supplies the evidence target. No result is present on this reference page.

Measured use

Units stop at the cap

  • One accepted enriched search uses one search unit.
  • A retry with the same idempotency key is not charged again.
  • The cap is hard. No plan can spend money automatically.
Compare plan caps

Your own consumption appears at /settings/usage.

When the reference ends

Use the control attached to the work

If nothing above answered the question, report the result from its own row or review the controls in the account area.

No public contact channel is configured for this deployment.

  • Report a resultfrom the result row
  • Account and privacy controls/settings