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Adobe Makes Flash Crawlable

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the what-about-cut-and-paste dept.

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."

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  1. GREAT! by the4thdimension · · Score: 5, Funny

    ...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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  2. For me... by dotancohen · · Score: 5, Funny

    ...Flash always crawls. That's life on dialup.

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  3. Here's hoping... by Tomfrh · · Score: 5, Funny

    Hopefully it'll crawl under a rock and die.

  4. Something about this makes me uncomfortable... by Dogtanian · · Score: 5, Funny

    ...matter of fact, it makes my Flash crawl!

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