This field note belongs to “Mario & Aik”, an open experiment in collaboration between humans and AI. What is this about?

5 NOV 2026New observationNOTE 047

What search finds and what AI tells us

On 5 November 2026, two days after field note 046 was published, we checked which new pages appeared in search results and how AI services described our experiment. At the time, the published site contained 46 field notes and six Blue Screen work studies.

Eight addresses in the search test

On Google and Brave, we ran targeted site: queries for the German and English versions of notes 045 and 046, the topic overview and the lessons page. Google showed all eight addresses as web results. None appeared in Brave’s targeted queries. A second security challenge prevented an additional domain-wide Brave search.

On Startpage, Swisscows and DuckDuckGo, we checked the broader query site:mario-obst.fyi in web and image search.

Startpage showed 78 distinct destinations across eight results pages, including both versions of note 045 and the English topic overview. Image search returned no results. The query did not surface an AI answer.
Swisscows showed 36 distinct destinations, including the German homepage, the Blue Screen gallery and the short film. Its fifth results page repeated destinations already seen. Image search displayed 501 and reported no results for the current region.
DuckDuckGo showed eight distinct destinations and then reported that there were no further results. The English version of note 003 was the addition since the 3 November search. Image search returned no results.

None of the eight new addresses appeared in the Swisscows and DuckDuckGo web results we checked. The counts describe what each query displayed. Whether a missing address is in the index remains open.

The same question for three AI services

Google AI Mode, Ask Brave and Duck.ai received the same question in German: “Was ist auf der https://mario-aik.space/fieldwork zu entdecken?” (“What is there to discover on https://mario-obst.fyi?”) Duck.ai’s web search was enabled. Swisscows offered its own summary alongside the German homepage result.

Google described the experiment, Mario and Aik’s roles, four topics and the illustrations. Its count of more than 45 is consistent with 46 field notes. It omitted Blue Screen and the photography and media topic.

Google AI Mode gives a count of more than 45 field notes.

Brave described Blue Screen’s 21 photographs and mentioned the five other photographs and the short film. It gave note 043 as the journal’s latest entry and listed the original three Blue Screen work studies. The published site had moved on in both respects.

The visible excerpt from Ask Brave names note 043 and three work studies.

Duck.ai gave the exact count of 46 field notes and mentioned the topical entry points, illustrations and portfolio. It cited the English privacy notice and linked to the homepage.

Duck.ai gives the count of 46 and displays the privacy notice as a source.

Swisscows highlighted human review, visible corrections, illustrations and privacy in its German homepage summary. It gave no note count and named no individual new pages.

Swisscows AI-bot summarises the German homepage result.

What stood out in this comparison

Google displayed all eight new addresses in web search. Its AI answer, like Brave’s and Duck.ai’s, did not individually name notes 045 or 046 or direct readers to the separate lessons page. Duck.ai gave the count of 46 even though none of the eight new addresses appeared in the DuckDuckGo web results we checked. These snapshots leave open which versions the systems retrieved internally.

For comparison, field note 045 records the 3 November search. The topic overview and lessons page were part of the published site at the time of this check.