My hunch is that their authentication mechanism does not require bots to be authenticated. That might be why you can view the entire page without being authenticated if you request the cached version.
[1] http://www.experts-exchange.com/Web_Development/Web_Languages-Standards/Flex/Q_27377143.html [2] http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:h2aRJSoLe1sJ:www.experts-exchange.com/Web_Development/Web_Languages-Standards/Flex/Q_27377143.html+&cd=5&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 6:51 PM, Alex Harui <aha...@adobe.com> wrote: > > > > On 2/27/12 3:22 PM, "Duane Nickull" <du...@uberity.com> wrote: > > > > DN: I have never seen any evidence of google using content it can access. > > Same for Bing and Yahoo. Flex can basically give it 500 words but for > > starters Google only takes 200 per site in most cases. They can all get > > text today, but the reality is they don't appear to use it. I am not > sure > > how you think an SDK will force them to use it. > I'm not saying the SDK will try to force anybody to use anything. I just > thought there were issues where folks want to have more control over what > text is found in a SWF, what links are found in the SWF and what buttons > get > pushed. I don't remember how Ichabod knew to push the buttons in > FlexStore. > > > > As for Authentication, most pages that require authentication are > probably > > not mean to be indexed as the human finding the link to it would face the > > same challenge. What would be the point? > I think it is expertsexchange.com that seems to be well indexed but you > have > to authenticate first. I don't know how they do that. > > > > -- > Alex Harui > Flex SDK Team > Adobe Systems, Inc. > http://blogs.adobe.com/aharui > >
