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When Vector Search Isn't Enough: What 11,794 Pages Taught Me About the Limits of AI Search

I asked a working AI search system to list every organization in an archive. It found 7. There were 22. Here is what breaks in standard AI search, why a knowledge graph fixes it, and what $53 across 11,794 pages proved.

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