Google improves the way it reads Flash content

In the past, search engines such as Google and Yahoo! have not been able to extract content such as links and text from Flash (SWF) files, leading to alot of the Flash-based content found on the web being unavailable in search engine results.

However, Both Google and Yahoo can both now crawl the textual elements contained within SWF files, including the crawling links within those Flash files.

• Google and Yahoo! will crawl SWF files
• Only the textual components can be crawled
• FLV filetype is not crawlable
• Google can read Flash files that are generated by JavaScript such as SWFObject
• Google may index the external files your Flash file calls and won't associate them to the Flash files

Find out more over on the Total Internet blog.

 

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