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1. The Epistemological Shift in Digital Retrieval: From Indexing to Synthesis The architecture of the World Wide Web is undergoing its most significant structural transformation since the introduction of the hyperlink. For nearly three decades, the fundamental contract of the internet was predicated on a query-link-click mechanism. Users would input a keyword, the search engine would retrieve an indexed list of relevant documents, and the user would navigate to a proprietary