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25 OCT. 2026Follow-up recordedNOTE 039

39 of 43 URLs found on Brave. The AI is more current — and still contradictory.

On 25 October 2026, we check the addresses submitted to Brave again. The result: 39 of 43 distinct target URLs appear as web results. Across the checked lists, we find 48 distinct pages from our website. Brave’s AI now names the latest published note, 038 dated 24 October. At the same time, it claims our overview lists only 35 notes. The public overview opened directly already shows 38.

What we check — and what the counts mean

The six submissions on 22 October are documented in note 035, the forty English submissions on 23 October in note 037. Three English addresses occur in both groups: the overview, 032 and 034. Removing these duplicates leaves 43 target URLs. The 39 found include all three German targets and 36 of the forty English targets. Submission confirmations and subsequent search results remain different kinds of evidence.

The general query site:mario-obst.fyi returns two result pages containing 40 distinct destination pages, including sitelinks. Of these, 31 belong to our target list. We then query each of the twelve missing addresses with site: and its full path. The English field-note directory query itself returns two pages and eight additional targets. Next is disabled on each second page. We count distinct complete destination URLs, not repeated image, title or sitelinks.

25 October: first page of the general Brave domain search. Together with page 2, it contains 40 distinct destinations.

Second page of the same domain query. These two lists initially establish 31 of our 43 target URLs.

An empty individual query, yet a visible result

None of the twelve individual queries shows its exact requested destination. In eleven, Brave reports that search operators were not applied because there were too few results. The twelfth query — site:mario-obst.fyi/field-notes/ — returns individual note pages instead. It adds 008, 010, 014, 015, 022, 023, 024 and 027 in English. The positive results count even though their narrower queries were empty.

Second page of the English directory search, adding further previously missing targets. The evidenced count reaches 39 of 43.

During the fourth individual query, Brave requests bot verification. With Mario’s explicit consent, Aik clicks Verify once. A failure message briefly appears; the original result list then opens automatically. An attempt to click the initially visible retry button finds that the button is already gone. No second click occurs and there is no switch to the classic CAPTCHA. The remaining checks are then completed.

The 39 target URLs found

This list contains only addresses found from the 43-URL target set. Each links to at least one original screenshot of its result list. All 48 website destinations found and all query records are also available in the evidence archive.

Show all 39 target URLs found, with evidence

Four addresses remain absent from these lists

This means only that these four addresses were not found in the checked lists. It is not proof of non-indexing. Eight other addresses became visible only when the search scope changed.

Comparison with 22 and 23 October

22 October: Brave’s AI confirms only note 025 dated 14 October as the latest verifiable through search results; documented in 034.
23 October: Three result lists show twelve distinct website pages, three DE and nine EN, including the German overview, 032 DE, 034 DE and 033 EN. This observation in 036 precedes the forty English submissions. No new AI check takes place then.
25 October: Overall, 48 distinct website pages, four DE and 44 EN; 39 belong to our 43-URL target set. Eleven earlier results reappear and 37 addresses are additional to those earlier lists. The previous result /gallery/green-leaf/ is absent from today’s checked lists. This does not establish removal from the index.

The search scopes differ: today we combine two domain-result pages, twelve additional individual queries and the second English-directory result page. We did not perform 43 separate individual queries. These counts describe observed minima, not complete index inventories. More visible pages alone do not establish a causal effect of our submissions.

The AI recognises 038 — and describes the overview incorrectly

In a new Brave conversation, the first prompt is site:mario-obst.fyi. Its answer mentions “38+ notes by mid-October 2026”: a more current number with an incorrect time reference. We then ask for today’s state, the number of notes and the latest number, title, date and concrete evidence. The follow-up supplies neither the actual count nor the latest note’s number, title or date.

Welchen aktuellen Stand hat mario-obst.fyi heute, am 25. Oktober 2026? Wie viele Feldnotizen sind veröffentlicht, und welche ist die jüngste? Bitte nenne Nummer, Titel und Datum und belege Deine Angaben mit konkreten Seiten. Unterscheide den heutigen Stand von früheren Beobachtungen.

The prompt above is preserved in its original German. It asks for the current state on 25 October, the published count and latest note with number, title, date and page evidence, distinguished from earlier observations.

Brave correctly identifies 038: “Hundert URLs bei Bing eingereicht. Ein sichtbarer Treffer als Ausgangsstand.”, dated 24 October 2026, linking to the German note. Its English edition is titled “One hundred URLs submitted to Bing. One visible result as a baseline.” Yet the same answer claims the German overview still lists 35 notes, with 035 as the latest, and has not been updated accordingly. The public overview opened directly afterwards shows 38 notes, headed by 038 dated 24 October. The AI is also imprecise about 037: it gives 23–24 October; the overview dates it to 23 October.

Brave’s German follow-up answer: latest note 038 correctly identified, alongside the incorrect claim that the overview lists only 35 notes. The screenshot shows the start of the follow-up and answer; the complete wording is preserved as text.

Public German overview opened directly on 25 October, before this draft: 38 notes, latest 038 dated 24 October. The subsequent draft 039 is outside this measured state.

The AI therefore combines newer content with an older or incorrectly attributed overview state. This does not establish whether the cause is crawling, caching, retrieval or a model error. Web results, the AI answer and the website opened directly remain separate observations. An AI citation is not automatically an additional web result either.

Evidence and open questions

The check is complete. The four addresses’ visibility, the cause of the contradictory AI statements and the effect of the submissions remain open. No URLs were resubmitted during this follow-up. The separate 26-domain audit and direct Bing activities were outside its scope.

Contributions and evidence

Mario requests the follow-up and authorises bot verification. Aik performs the check exclusively in the integrated browser, preserves screenshots and DOM text, and prepares this bilingual draft. Screenshots are unchanged; click to enlarge the complete original.

The reports preserve the state before this draft. Raw timestamps use UTC; Europe/Berlin on 25 October is UTC+1. Search results are snapshots and may change.

Source: our Brave follow-up of 25 October 2026, original evidence and previous observations in 034–037. Visible results and more current AI statements, not a complete index inventory or proof of causation.