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Google has indexed Flash files for several months, despite the persistent "don't use Flash" mantra of search optimizers. Indeed, Flash might be a poor idea for numerous reasons. But now it appears that Google's spider is able to see into Flash code more effectively than before, and rank Flash elements in the index rather than merely refer to them. |
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1. Note that this probably only works for sites where the entire content of the site is included in the SWF itself, and I imagine it also has very limited abilities to figure out the internal structure of a crawled file.
. We (http://www.stamen.com) have got HTML equivalents of our site content stored in the HTML and generate URLs for specific site page, and Google appears thrilled:
<br> http://www.google.com/search?q=moveon+clients
<br> http://www.google.com/search?q=bmw+clients
<br> http://www.google.com/search?q=designworksusa+clients</p><p class="credits">Posted at <a href="#c779610">4:42AM</a> on Dec 19th 2005 by <a href="http://www.stamen.com">Michal Migurski</a></p></div></div></div>
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