Google’s Improved Ability to Index Flash
Friday, July 11, 2008
This blog post is important for anyone with an interactive, beautifully designed website built in Flash. Google announced recently they have greatly improved their ability to index Flash.
In short, Google has been developing a new algorithm for indexing textual content in Flash files of all kinds from menus/buttons/banners, to full self-contained Flash websites. Recently, they’ve improved the performance of this Flash indexing algorithm by integrating Adobe’s Flash Player technology.
Currently there are multiple technical limitations (ie: there are difficulties with Flash content written in bidirectional languages; Google currently does not attach content from external resources that are loaded by Flash files; Googlebot does not execute some types of JavaScript, so if the page loads a Flash file via JavaScript, Google may not be aware of that Flash file, in which case it will not be indexed). That being said, these limitations are already in the process of being resolved...Read more.
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