Google Can Now Index Almost Any Flash Content
 

"Last year we followed up with an announcement that we had added external resource loading to our SWF indexing capabilities," Jifeng Situ and Sverre Sundsdal, Software Engineers at Google

Along with text, most of which can now be indexed, Googlebot can follow links found in Flash content. More recently, the team has been making progress in indexing Flash content within JavaScript code and extracting data from video content served with Flash.

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Hm it can be a game changer for some..

Yay. More traffic for tubes :disgust

Hm why? There isn't much to "read" on video players...

Google is really stealing more and more data. One day, they are going to flip a switch and simply serve all data on their own.