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Adobe Makes Flash Crawlable
nickull wrote in his journal that "Today Adobe systems made an announcement that it has provided technology and information to Google and Yahoo! to help the two search engine rivals index Shockwave Flash (SWF) file formats. According to the company, this will provide more relevant search rankings of the millions pieces of Flash content. Until now, developers had to implement workarounds for exposing text content used in Flash to search-engine spiders and other bots such as using XHTML data providers. While the Flash content is exposed, it is not yet clear how it will be utilized by the search engines, as they have not revealed their algorithms. The SWF specification is openly published."
...now I can search directly for those great flash games I use to pass the time at work! What'll they think of next?
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...Flash always crawls. That's life on dialup.
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Hopefully it'll crawl under a rock and die.
...matter of fact, it makes my Flash crawl!
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Why would I want search engines crawling through my thumb-drive?
OK, before you mod me troll, that was a joke.
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... who read the title as "Adobe Makes Flesh Crawl"? My first thought was, yeah, so what else is new?
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