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  "title": "Hanging Context vs Web Search - Hanging Context",
  "description": "Hanging Context is not a replacement for web search. Web search finds documents; Hanging Context publishes timestamped, source-grounded context pages and JSON twins that agents can retrieve, verify, and cite.",
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