Flash & Search Engines 99 Responses

Last post: 5 months ago | Thread started: Jul 1, 08, 9:15 a.m.

RespondNew TopicDisable Images

• dbloc

  Big News.
  Flash will now be readable by search engines.

  http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/0…
  -flash-files-can-now-be-found-an…

  http://www.adobe.com/aboutadobe/…
  chMediaSearch.html

  http://tech.slashdot.org/tech/08…

  http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/tech…
  _to_handle_flash.html

  Jul 1, 08, 9:15 a.m. – Permalink

• dbloc

  what a miserable fail that was.

  http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/0…

  http://www.adobe.com/aboutadobe/…

  http://tech.slashdot.org/tech/08…

  http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/tech…

  

  You must be logged in to add a note. Login now or register for an account.

  Cancel

  Dog-earJul 1, 08, 9:16 a.m. – Permalink

• ukit

  That's pretty cool, on the other hand, I guess there's no way to directly link to the text as with regular webpages.

  

  You must be logged in to add a note. Login now or register for an account.

  Cancel

  Dog-earJul 1, 08, 9:19 a.m. – Permalink

• dbloc

  This is a huge step though

  • Yes, indeed. Thanks for the post.– fyoucher1

  

  You must be logged in to add a note. Login now or register for an account.

  Cancel

  Dog-earJul 1, 08, 9:20 a.m. – Permalink

• zaq

  things to be aware:
  1. Your flash won't be indexed if you use SWFobject or other javascript - generated flash object.
  2. text generated dynamically ( xml, flash remoting, or from database) will not be indexed.
  3. Your intros with flying text will be indexed.

  • Ha Haa– dbloc

  

  You must be logged in to add a note. Login now or register for an account.

  Cancel

  Dog-earJul 1, 08, 9:24 a.m. – Permalink

• ukit

  I'm assuming that doesn't include the JS-generated Flash that is created by default with the newer version of Flash when you publish

  • if this is true....nothing will work– dbloc

  

  You must be logged in to add a note. Login now or register for an account.

  Cancel

  Dog-earJul 1, 08, 9:25 a.m. – Permalink

• maximillion_

  what i read is that the SE's have a "special" player that allows a search engine to step through the app reading all dyn content

  

  You must be logged in to add a note. Login now or register for an account.

  Cancel

  Dog-earJul 1, 08, 9:27 a.m. – Permalink

• dbloc

  Adobe’s VP of marketing for its platform business, explains:

  We are releasing technology to Google and Yahoo that enables them to crawl and index SWF files. They are now searchable. This will open up millions of Flash files to search.

  

  You must be logged in to add a note. Login now or register for an account.

  Cancel

  Dog-earJul 1, 08, 9:28 a.m. – Permalink

• zaq

  4. If you load swf files with content into main.swf, they will be treated separately. You will get direct links to your swf ( missing navigation or the rest of the site)
  as far, as I can tell this is not a huge step.

  • expect to see a lot of foster swf files on google now.– zaq1/2

    yea that's not good.– dbloc2/2

  

  You must be logged in to add a note. Login now or register for an account.

  Cancel

  Dog-earJul 1, 08, 9:30 a.m. – Permalink

• Fariska

  Fair enough and was almost time.

  BUT modern approaches make the indexing not a problem.
  If you have a pretty well done xml parser, all you have to do is
  use the index.html as your xml document, and read in flash, and you'll get an excellent indexing.

  

  You must be logged in to add a note. Login now or register for an account.

  Cancel

  Dog-earJul 1, 08, 9:32 a.m. – Permalink