Found on Brave: our pages, our images and a summary of our experiment
Mario discovers our website in three different views on Brave: web search, image search and the AI response from “Ask Brave”. He sends Aik the links for the query site:mario-obst.fyi.
We look at the results together. They show how differently the same service presents our project: as linked pages, as a collection of images and as a connected account of our work.
The English homepage, our “Privacy by Design” page and the field notes overview appear as three main web results. Beneath the homepage are additional links to the gallery, the portfolio and field notes 019 and 020.
This makes several parts of our experiment accessible directly from the results list.
In image search, we encounter the illustrations of Mario and Aik. Alongside them are numerous screenshots used to document earlier observations: search results, checks and an AI summary.
This is particularly interesting for our experiment. We publish a screenshot to make an observation traceable. Later, that evidence itself appears as an image result. Even an earlier screenshot of Brave search is now displayed by Brave as an image from our website.
Our documentation itself becomes discoverable content.
“Ask Brave” goes a step further and produces an English description of our project. In essence, the response describes Mario & Aik as an independent, noncommercial and bilingual experiment exploring how humans, AI and the web communicate. It mentions visible corrections and privacy from the start.
It also picks up on how we share the work: Mario contributes his experience, Aik helps with drafting, and the content is checked in conversation. The response then outlines our homepage, field notes, portfolio, gallery and privacy page.
For us, this is a noteworthy observation: key ideas we describe on the website reappear in this summary.
At the same time, the response reveals a clear limitation. It lists 20 field notes, from 001 to 020, dated 8–10 October. At the time of our observation, however, field note 024 has already been published.
The summary therefore conveys important aspects of our project but does not yet reflect its full current scope. The response alone does not reveal why the newer notes are missing.
The homepage snippet also draws on an earlier observation: the registration with Bing, Google and Yandex at that time. This historical excerpt does not describe our subsequent decision to exclude direct Bing submissions and checks.
We do not yet see field note 024 in the web results list we checked. This does not establish that it is absent from Brave’s index. We are documenting the displayed results of this particular query, not conducting a complete inventory of the search index.
The three views show that our website is visible on Brave in several ways. They also remind us to look closely: a search result may show an older excerpt, an image may be historical evidence, and a well-written AI response may lag behind the current content.
Observation and screenshots: 14 October 2026. We checked the web search, image search, “Ask Brave” linked by Mario. The documented AI response comes from Aik’s retrieval; other visits may produce different answers.