Links + Snippets Not Enough for RAG

Several people posting lately about how RAG + search is not enough: "All the model gets is a list of links and snippets. It's not enough to make sense of most real business questions." Agreed. If your pipeline stuffs ten search snippets into a prompt and hopes, you get confident mush. A snippet is a pointer to evidence, not the evidence. The fix is a step most RAG setups skip: page fetch plus a reader. Three parts. 1. Fetch the page, not the snippet The search result is a pointer. So before…