Glossary · Answer engines and retrieval
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The amount of text a model can consider at once. A page that exceeds what a retriever will pass along is truncated silently, and the part that survives is not necessarily the part you would have chosen.
Answer engines and retrieval
How a generated answer gets made, and what your page is competing for inside it.
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