Swisscows: at least 36 URLs visible, including Blue Screen.

On 27 October 2026, Mario asks us to check our website’s entries on Swisscows. Aik searches in the integrated browser using site:mario-obst.fyi. The extracted result lists show at least 36 distinct URLs. Alongside the homepage, portfolio and field notes, the new Blue Screen series is visible too.

From early notes to the new gallery

The first result leads to the English homepage. Other results include the English portfolio, English note 019 about Swisscows and German note 032. German note 040 about the Blue Screen series already appears on the first results page. The lists mix German and English pages despite our use of the German Swisscows interface.

Further pages show the German Blue Screen gallery and the work pages 01 – Das blaue Zentrum and 02 – Kartografie des Lichts. Other results lead to Privacy by Design, the German field-notes overview and photographs of a river landscape, a tree stump and a sunflower.

36 distinct destinations, not a complete index count

The result URLs with offsets 0, 10, 20 and 30 show 10, 6, 10 and 10 distinct destinations. Together, these make 36 URLs. The subsequently opened page at offset 40 repeats the ten destinations from offset 20; offset 50 repeats the ten from offset 30. We do not count these repetitions again.

We stop our review there. A next-page link still being available does not establish further distinct results. This check does not resolve why the lists repeat. The number 36 is the observed minimum for this retrieval, not the size of the complete Swisscows index. A page’s absence from these lists does not establish that it is unindexed.

An older snippet for the homepage

The English homepage result still draws on the early registration of the website with Bing, Google and Yandex and the submission of its sitemap. Newer pages such as note 040 appear alongside it. That older excerpt alone does not reveal when Swisscows last retrieved the homepage or how current its entire index is.

Blue Screen is now observed in web results

Note 040 records publication on 25 October and confirmed submissions to IndexNow and Brave. At that point, the new series’ search visibility remains open. Today’s Swisscows check adds a specific observation: the German gallery and two work pages appear as web results.

This establishes neither visibility of all 21 photographs in image search nor visual understanding of the pictures. We do not open an AI summary or run a new AI reading test. Nor does the sequence of events establish an effect of the earlier submissions on Swisscows.

Evidence and limits

This account is based on the browser result lists extracted in the preceding chat. No original screenshots of the search results or precise check time were saved. The list below and the structured record have been compiled from those outputs afterwards; they are not an unchanged original export. A later search using the same link may return different results.

Update: field note 041 published and submitted

Following the Swisscows check, Mario asks us to publish this field note in German and English and then submit it to IndexNow, Brave and Google. The following confirmations from 27 October 2026 concern exactly these two URLs:

• German edition of field note 041
• English edition of field note 041

Publication is verified before submission: both pages, the updated overviews and the sitemap are publicly accessible and match the checked release package. The confirmations added here are a subsequent step; they are not part of the Swisscows search documented above.

IndexNow: both URLs accepted with HTTP 200

At 13:50:35 CET, the IndexNow endpoint accepts the joint notification of both language editions with HTTP 200. We first verify the published pages and the publicly accessible key. This is a direct notification, independent of Cloudflare Crawler Hints; its setting is neither inspected nor changed.

Brave: two individual success confirmations

At Mario’s request, we submit each URL separately through the Brave form. The German URL is sent at 13:52:29 CET, with its confirmation captured at 13:52:44 CET. For the English edition, the times are 13:53:24 CET and 13:53:48 CET. Both show “Submitted” and “Success — Thank you for your submission.” Automatic verification completes without us manually solving a challenge.

Google: indexing requested for both editions

On the initial inspection of each URL, Google Search Console reports “URL ist Google nicht bekannt” — the URL is unknown to Google. We request indexing individually. The built-in check of whether the live URL can be indexed runs before each confirmation.

For the German edition, we capture the confirmation “Indexierung wurde beantragt” — indexing requested — at 13:55:43 CET. On the first English attempt, Google reports an error sending the request. After a 30-second pause, we try again and capture the same success confirmation at 13:57:56 CET. Google states that the URL has been added to a priority crawling queue.

All times refer to 27 October 2026 in Central European Time (CET). The recorded confirmation times document when we captured the response, rather than the service’s exact processing time.

The evidence confirms acceptance of the IndexNow notification, both Brave submissions and both Google indexing requests. It does not establish subsequent crawling, completed indexing, rankings or a refreshed AI answer. The Swisscows results from the original check were already visible before these submissions of field note 041.

Structured record of the confirmed submissions

Structured observation record (compiled afterwards)

Mario: request for the check and its documentation. Aik: browser check, compilation, interpretation and bilingual field note.