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Google learns to crawl Flash
News Type: Event — Seeded on Wed Jul 2, 2008 11:59 AM EDT
Article Source: googleblog.blogspot.comadvertisement
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.
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I think this is a very exciting development for us rich media types. We have been waiting for this for a long time.
Plus, the added advantage this gives Google is a major leap for a search engine that is already head and shoulders above the pack.
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#1 - Wed Jul 2, 2008 12:07 PM EDT{"commentId":2103654,"authorDomain":"rbrazys"}
I spoke too soon, it appears Yahoo is in on this as well, and there are some issues they are still working out:
There are three main limitations at present, and we are already working on resolving them:
1. Googlebot does not execute some types of JavaScript. So if your web page loads a Flash file via JavaScript, Google may not be aware of that Flash file, in which case it will not be indexed.
2. We currently do not attach content from external resources that are loaded by your Flash files. If your Flash file loads an HTML file, an XML file, another SWF file, etc., Google will separately index that resource, but it will not yet be considered to be part of the content in your Flash file.
3. While we are able to index Flash in almost all of the languages found on the web, currently there are difficulties with Flash content written in bidirectional languages. Until this is fixed, we will be unable to index Hebrew language or Arabic language content from Flash files.
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