Tuesday, July 1, 2008

Google indexing flash now


Today, Google announced that, with the assisting of Adobe's technology, now they are able to index the flash content. It catches some eyeball in several major blog and communities.

In the old days, where...

"In general, search engines are text based. This means that in order to be crawled and indexed, your content needs to be in text format. This doesn't mean that you can't include images, Flash files, videos, and other rich media content on your site; it just means that any content you embed in these files should also be available in text format or it won't be accessible to search engines."

Now, you don't need to worry about the SEO stuff, well, in terms of showing up in front of google's crawler. However, you still can't go crazy with it. Becoming visible is one thing, actually ranking highly is another. Google currently can find about 73 million Flash files on the Web. But until Adobe makes it easy for the average Webmaster or blogger to link deeply into those Flash files, they are not likely to appear at the top of many search results.

I'm a big fun of those flash based web applications. There is a demo to show you how far FLEX could go. Also, if you're a big movie fun, you probably have already noticed that most of the official movie websites are powered by flash. Just named a few: Kung Fu Panda, Madagascar, and Indiana Jones.

I have very little experience with flash and flex, but I'll definitely try it out sometime.

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