Google Learns to Crawl Flash – Designers Rejoice
A blog post from the powers that be over at the search giant have explained the development of new algorithms to crawl embedded Adobe Flash and pull out textual content.
In the past, web designers faced challenges if they chose to develop a site in Flash because the content they included was not indexable by search engines. They needed to make extra effort to ensure that their content was also presented in another way that search engines could find.
Now that we’ve launched our Flash indexing algorithm, web designers can expect improved visibility of their published Flash content, and you can expect to see better search results and snippets. There’s more info on the Webmaster Central blog
about the Searchable SWF integration.
Flash has been an SEO black hole since it was introduced, and this is certainly a major development in the ability to mix the interactive technology with SEO-friendly sites.
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