Google, Yahoo inks deal with Adobe to make Flash searchable

[gaininfo]

On July 1, 2008, Adobe announced steps to solve non-indexing of Flash based content by search engines by providing Google and Yahoo! with software that will make indexing and searching of Flash based pages and content possible.

Moreover, Google has announced that it has launched a "Flash indexing algorithm", which will result in better search results, so far as Flash based content is concerned.

This double treat is great news for all those Flash loving designers who always have had great ideas around Flash, but were feeling restricted because of search engine related problems.

Time to celebrate guys, Yippeeee

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[evan]

starting with what player will it work. Or will this go for all flash projects. Is there anything developers need to do to their projects to make them seacrchable.

[Medyman]

starting with what player will it work. Or will this go for all flash projects

All Flash files.

Is there anything developers need to do to their projects to make them seacrchable.

Undoubtedly, as the integration of this new "Enhanced Adobe Flash Player" (as Adobe calls it) technology gets deeper into the Google and Yahoo! searching indexing engines, some "best practices" will develop in the same way as current non-flash based SEO standards. But given that the release just happened, they haven't developed yet.


This was bound to happen. If Adobe hadn't done it themselves, Google would have. With the open-sourcing of the SWF and FLV formats, there is much more to come.