'For Flash to be accessible all the animation must be removed.'

This is a narrow and limited view because flash programmers can easily optimize for google, and I'm sure u will be seeing an increase in optimization soon. There is absolutely no reason to remove any animation from the flash file- just move it along a few frames, or into another scene.

Firstly, many flashers use what are called pre-loaders, so the slow connected user can view the % of file loaded. I noticed that google's results have many preloaders, and not the main swf file. Google reads the first text within the the flash files. So, to optimize i would just place keywords, phrases e.g "Harry Potter books now on sale at Amazon. Please wait while the movie loads..." in the preloader. Very simple. Also remember that many broadband users wont even see the preloader...but Google will.

And it doesnt have to be a preloader - maybe one frame with all the phrases and words u want to appear in Google - which may not be seen by the public. of course this may be open to abuse, but I think for the short term optimisation can be used wisely.

Also, why can't a flash file contain releveant links back to html with keywords and phrases to the results the searcher is interested in? This is something new to consider when developing flash, and i think it is great.

And, to go further, I would suggest that this is now a reason to use flash even more.

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Jeremy