How is enterprise RAG different from standard search?

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Enterprise RAG combines retrieval and generation with permissions, structured constraints, evaluation and governance rather than only returning documents. Traditional search helps users find content. Enterprise RAG goes further by retrieving the right content, grounding the model in it and producing an answer or action-ready output. That shift adds more value, but it also increases the need for evaluation, access control, freshness handling and traceability.