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A method you can inspect.

How a result reaches you.

Read the order, evidence, origin, answer support, and advertising boundary without asking the system to fill a missing fact.

  • Vertical scopemethod / scope
  • Organic ordermethod / order
  • Authority evidencemethod / evidence
  • Result provenancemethod / origin
  • Answer supportmethod / support
  • Sponsored separationmethod / ads

Deployment scope

What this search is about.

The owner of this deployment declares the vertical. Every search here runs inside that policy — it is what the search engine is, not a default a reader dismisses.

Active vertical policy — declared, dated

owner-defined
admitted topics
admitted source classes
included domains
excluded domains
languages · countries

A reader's own filters, pins and blocks narrow this policy inside itself. They never widen it: a domain the owner left out stays out of every result list on this deployment.

Organic ranking input ledger

What organic order listens to.

  • Query–corpus matchowned material resolves first
  • Acervo authorityfirst-party · explained · dated
  • Freshnesscurrent state stays visible
  • Active filtersone combined contract
paymentexcluded from organic order

First-party assessment

A score must show its work.

Acervo’s own assessment stays empty until current observations support it.

Acervo authority — evidence, dated

evidence register
contribution
observation · source
confidence
measured date

Without a current assessment, the register reads not measured — never zero and never a borrowed metric.

Retrieval provenance

Owned material is checked first.

A coverage or freshness gap can open bounded external lookup. Returned material rejoins one organic list; it does not replace it.

OWNED RETRIEVALCOVERAGE DECISIONBOUNDED EXTERNAL LOOKUPMERGED LIST

retrieval mode not measured

Rights state · an unvalidated combination fails closed

  • unknown
  • metadata_only
  • licensed_storage
  • legal_review
  • denied
  • expired

Evidence-bound companion

The answer may refuse. Results stay.

The companion changes state independently. The organic list beside it keeps the same rows, order, and position.

Cited answer

abstained
Answer state

The retrieved evidence does not support an answer.

  • streamingsupported claims only
  • abstainedevidence does not support an answer
  • disabledlist remains available

claim slot

cited result · open source

Results · fixed organic list

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Separate inventory plane

Sponsored inventory stays separate.

Adding or removing a labeled sponsored plane cannot change the numbered organic list.

Inventory preview

Results · fixed organic list

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Sponsored

No sponsored inventory configured.

payment never enters organic order