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."

Comments

silverlight

[Bizzeh]

it took adobe longer than i thought it would do do this, as this was one of the core functionalities of MS Silverlight.

I misread the subject

[MiniMike]

I read it twice, and could have sworn it said:

Adobe Makes FLESH Crawlable

My first thought was yes, it sometimes does make my flesh crawl, but why is this a headline here it isn't, um, let's not name the site.

Then I realized my mistake and thought well, that's nice but just not as interesting...

Animated Ads

[ehaggis]

Animated Ads always make my flash crawl!