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01-07-2008:
Flash web sites have been the bane of my life... very poor indexing, text locked in the page... crazy, avoid!!! Well help is on the way. Adobe has unveiled what it is currently calling its Searchable SWF technology, encompassed by a "search-engine optimized" version of Flash Player that Adobe will distribute to search companies, starting with Google and Yahoo. When a search spider hits an SWF Flash file, the special Flash Player will start up. This Flash Player will navigate every state of Flash files like a virtual user would, finding and helping the search engines index text and links along the way and searching through otherwise unlinked files that the Flash file points to.
Still, only text and links will be searchable. Graphics and video, including FLV files, still won't be able to be indexed properly, and there's no capability to search and index metadata embedded in Flash files (even though, Adobe says, SWF and FLV files have metadata fields) or to allow people to link to specific content within a Flash file in order to make search results more relevant. Also, when someone clicks on a search result, they'll be taken to the beginning of a Flash file and will have to navigate their way to the content they are seeking.
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01-07-2008:
Flash web sites have been the bane of my life... very poor indexing, text locked in the page... crazy, avoid!!! Well help is on the way. Adobe has unveiled what it is currently calling its Searchable SWF technology, encompassed by a "search-engine optimized" version of Flash Player that Adobe will distribute to search companies, starting with Google and Yahoo. When a search spider hits an SWF Flash file, the special Flash Player will start up. This Flash Player will navigate every state of Flash files like a virtual user would, finding and helping the search engines index text and links along the way and searching through otherwise unlinked files that the Flash file points to.
Still, only text and links will be searchable. Graphics and video, including FLV files, still won't be able to be indexed properly, and there's no capability to search and index metadata embedded in Flash files (even though, Adobe says, SWF and FLV files have metadata fields) or to allow people to link to specific content within a Flash file in order to make search results more relevant. Also, when someone clicks on a search result, they'll be taken to the beginning of a Flash file and will have to navigate their way to the content they are seeking.
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