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Originally Posted by nelsonez
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Originally Posted by Ann
I have seen that now a days Google started crawling flash. Many of my clients website flash is also crawled & showing in the results.
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The real indication that Google is crawling FLASH is to type a 6 word phrase within quotes that is embedded in a FLASH file and see if Google can find that phrase for that exact webpage.
So far I have not seen any evidence for this.
All FLASH-based websites have to have some HTML to run so that is what usually gets indexed and not the FLASH itself. Title tags, meta tags, comment tags, noscript tags ect... and anyone other HTML based links that might be on the page.
Having your web address show in the search engines does not mean that they are indexing your FLASH.
Try what I suggested and let us know what you find. I think you will see that for the most part FLASH is not being indexed. This may have changed recently but like I said I have not seen any evidence for this.
On a side not Google can index PDF files as I am sure everyone is aware of so it may not be too long before they are able to also index text within FLASH. Just haven't seen any widespread evidence for this. |
Google indexes the text in Flash (and reads the links). If you search for a unique search string contained in a Flash movie, Google returns the movie as a separate document (in the same way it does with PDF), even if its embedded in a page.
However, I suspect that although Google is indexing Flash, its not necessarily giving documents the same weight in the search results, so I don't think building sites only in Flash is a good idea yet.