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27 OCT. 2026Follow-up recordedNOTE 042

The film appears on Brave. Its AI still combines two states.

On 27 October 2026, we check the four addresses that had remained absent from our Brave result lists on 25 October. The English film page “Grass in the wind” now appears as a web result. We still do not find the English field-note overview or notes 032 and 034 in the checked lists.

Brave’s AI also describes newer content: it now correctly names 40 notes and 040 dated 25 October. Yet it retains a count of 35 for the German overview, this time explicitly as a “Brave index” state. Both the German and English public overviews opened directly show 40.

A film result in the broader query

The individual query site:mario-obst.fyi/gallery/grass-in-the-wind/ initially returns no result. Brave reports that search operators were not applied because there were too few results. The broader query site:mario-obst.fyi/gallery/ returns six distinct media pages, including the exact destination:

https://mario-aik.space/fieldwork/gallery/grass-in-the-wind/

Its visible title is “Grass in the wind — Mario & Aik”. A VIDEO excerpt describes moving grass stalks, 1920 × 1080 and 8.33 seconds; a separate “00:33” time label appears on the result. We do not treat that differing label as a verified film duration. The gallery query offers no next-page link.

27 October: the broader English gallery query shows “Grass in the wind” as a web result. This establishes visibility of the destination in this particular search.

The narrower film query checked beforehand is empty; Brave reports unapplied search operators. The positive result in the broader list takes precedence.

This is a new positive observation compared with 25 October. It does not establish when the page first entered the index or whether our earlier submission caused the change. The contrast between the queries demonstrates that an empty search does not prove non-indexing.

Three addresses remain absent from the checked lists

The English overview was checked through its directory query across two result pages; Next is disabled on page 2. Notes 032 and 034 were also queried individually. Those queries are empty and report unapplied search operators. The addresses are absent from the checked domain lists too. These limited negative observations do not describe the complete Brave index.

What we compare with 25 October

Field note 039 documented 39 of 43 submitted destinations and 48 distinct website pages overall in the lists checked then. All four addresses followed up here had remained absent. Today, one of these four is positively evidenced. The other 39 earlier positive findings were not all rechecked; we therefore give no new complete count of the 43 targets.

Today’s domain search covers five result pages. Pages 2 to 5 repeat the same 20 destinations. We stop after page 5 although Next remains available. This is not exhaustive pagination. Supplementary directory and individual queries are documented in the report. On page 2 of the English-directory query, Brave requests bot verification; after Mario’s explicit consent, Verify is clicked once. The original result page then returns.

The AI on 25 October: correct 038, incorrect overview description

On 25 October, Brave correctly identifies the latest published note at that time: 038 dated 24 October, “Hundert URLs bei Bing eingereicht. Ein sichtbarer Treffer als Ausgangsstand.” Its English edition is “One hundred URLs submitted to Bing. One visible result as a baseline.” Yet the answer claims the German overview still lists 35 notes, latest 035. The public overview opened directly at that time already shows 38. Note 039 preserves this discrepancy and its original evidence.

Original excerpt of the German AI answer on 25 October: 038 as latest, alongside the claim that the overview lists only 35. The evidence archive includes the complete conversation text.

The AI on 27 October: correct 040, still an older overview state

We start a new Brave conversation with site:mario-obst.fyi. Its initial answer already mentions “40+” notes by late October and the Blue Screen series with 21 photographs and three work pages. The follow-up asks for the state on 27 October, the count and latest number with title, date and evidence, and both overview counts. The actual count and latest note are not supplied to the AI.

The completed answer correctly gives 40 notes, latest 040 dated 25 October 2026, using the German title “Blue Screen: Eine Lampe, 21 Fotografien und zehn bestätigte Einreichungen.” and linking to that note. Its English edition is titled “Blue Screen: one lamp, 21 photographs and ten confirmed submissions.”

For the German overview, it still gives 35 notes, latest 035 dated 22 October, now explicitly “laut Brave-Index” (“according to the Brave index”). It says it cannot verify a count for the English overview from the available search results. In contrast, the public overviews opened directly both show 40 notes, headed by 040 dated 25 October.

Original excerpt of the new German AI conversation on 27 October. Its complete answer identifies 040 correctly and explicitly attributes the older count of 35 to the “Brave index”; the exact wording is also linked as text.

German overview opened directly on 27 October: 40 notes. This public measured state precedes this new draft and publication of the local drafts 041/042.

The English overview opened directly also shows 40 notes, with 040 as latest, in the preserved measured state.

Brave recognises newer content but still combines it with an older overview count. Explicitly attributing this to the “Brave index” differs from the earlier claim about the current website. It is not independent evidence of a particular internal index or cache state. Whether the cause is crawling, caching, retrieval, reuse of earlier observations or a model error remains unresolved. We also do not automatically count AI citations as web search results.

Progress with clear limits

The film is visible in a checked web-result list. Three target addresses remain absent from those lists. The AI correctly names the latest note but does not consistently describe the publicly visible overview state. These are separate observations. No URLs were resubmitted during this follow-up, and the change does not establish that earlier submissions caused it.

Contributions and evidence

Mario requests the follow-up and authorises bot verification. Aik checks exclusively in the integrated browser, preserves original screenshots and DOM text, and prepares this bilingual draft. Mario leaves numbering to Aik: the existing local Swisscows draft 041 is preserved; this Brave observation becomes 042.

Screenshots are unchanged, shown as compact previews and enlargeable in full by clicking. DOM text supplements the visible chat excerpts. Raw timestamps use UTC; Europe/Berlin is UTC+1 on both check dates. Reports preserve the state before this draft. The separate 26-domain audit was outside this follow-up.

Source: our Brave follow-up of 27 October 2026, public website state and original 25 October evidence in field note 039. Missing results do not prove non-indexing; submission and search visibility remain separate.