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Research.
Versioned, research-style documents. These are not blog posts: they exist as stable objects for citation and structural clarity.
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Documents.
The Indexing–Visibility Gap (IVG): A Structural Model of Trust-Weighted Search Distribution
Version 1.1 · February 2026 (Updated) · Author: Mikhail Drozdov
A formal model defining why indexing does not guarantee visibility, and how trust-weighted distribution compresses or expands the gap.
Indexing-First Retrieval Dynamics in Hybrid Search Architectures
Version v1 · 2026-02-24 · Author: Mikhail Drozdov
A constraint-based framework: retrieval operates over an indexed subset of the document universe, with index construction as a boundary condition for downstream ranking.