Adobe Makes Flash Crawlable

Posted by CmdrTaco on Tuesday July 1, 2008 @12:38AM 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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Not All Flash is Bad by stewbacca · 2008-07-01 03:09 · Score: 0, Troll

Delivering software simulations for educational purposes is done pretty much 100% in Flash. Used well, Flash is not as bad as your typical slashdotter thinks. I get the complaints against it, but sometimes I feel those non-creative types on here just don't get the usefulness of the tool. What's next? Photoshop is a steamy pile of crap because it isn't open source and has no competition?