http://www.heavychef.com/flash-becomes-searchable-google-announcement/ Practical Learning About Digital Marketing Sun, 05 Feb 2012 04:11:42 +0200 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 http://www.heavychef.com/flash-becomes-searchable-google-announcement/comment-page-1/#comment-401 Fred Wed, 02 Jul 2008 09:42:01 +0000 http://www.heavychef.com/?p=547#comment-401 Chris, it's great news (especially for an evangelist like yourself), and once these issues are resolved, it will be interesting to see how many new sites built in Flash will bubble to the top. Chris, it’s great news (especially for an evangelist like yourself), and once these issues are resolved, it will be interesting to see how many new sites built in Flash will bubble to the top.

]]> http://www.heavychef.com/flash-becomes-searchable-google-announcement/comment-page-1/#comment-402 Chris Beech Wed, 02 Jul 2008 06:51:47 +0000 http://www.heavychef.com/?p=547#comment-402 The big question is what are the current limitations? Well Google only has 3 at the moment and they have already made headway resolving them: "1. Googlebot does not execute some types of JavaScript. So if your web page loads a Flash file via JavaScript, Google may not be aware of that Flash file, in which case it will not be indexed. 2. We currently do not attach content from external resources that are loaded by your Flash files. If your Flash file loads an HTML file, an XML file, another SWF file, etc., Google will separately index that resource, but it will not yet be considered to be part of the content in your Flash file. 3. While we are able to index Flash in almost all of the languages found on the web, currently there are difficulties with Flash content written in bidirectional languages. Until this is fixed, we will be unable to index Hebrew language or Arabic language content from Flash files." http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2008/06/improved-flash-indexing.html The big question is what are the current limitations? Well Google only has 3 at the moment and they have already made headway resolving them:
“1. Googlebot does not execute some types of JavaScript. So if your web page loads a Flash file via JavaScript, Google may not be aware of that Flash file, in which case it will not be indexed.
2. We currently do not attach content from external resources that are loaded by your Flash files. If your Flash file loads an HTML file, an XML file, another SWF file, etc., Google will separately index that resource, but it will not yet be considered to be part of the content in your Flash file.
3. While we are able to index Flash in almost all of the languages found on the web, currently there are difficulties with Flash content written in bidirectional languages. Until this is fixed, we will be unable to index Hebrew language or Arabic language content from Flash files.”
http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2008/06/improved-flash-indexing.html

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