Hi, Go to google.
In the search box type "Filetype:SWF Monkey" (or whatever after filetype:SWF) You will see that Google does search within SWF. It doesn't rank these pages as effectively as HTML yet (!). We are working with all of the major search engines to improve this over time. -David > -----Original Message----- > From: James Ward [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, March 04, 2005 11:58 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [flexcoders] Flex concerns > > > Well we are actually building our entire website / portal in > Flex. So the search engine problem applies to us. Luckily > we have a content management system behind our portal so our > solution is to hide an iframe with a plain old indexable > version of our site. Any links into that iframe get > redirected to the correct place in the portal. This is one > of the topics which will be in the article I will be writing in April. > > -James > > > On Sat, 2005-03-05 at 01:13 +0530, Manish Jethani wrote: > > Shell Bryson wrote: > > > > > So far I've discovered; search engines ignore Flex apps. > > > > Thankfully! Search engines can't tell the difference between a > > webpage with *content* (like a news article, a website with food > > recipes, etc.) and a "web application", and they end up > indexing the > > application "contents" (like all the labels and stuff?). > Why would a > > search engine want to index a Flex app? What's there in a Flex app > > for a search engine to know about? > > > > My understanding is that Flex is for *applications* while > HTML/CSS is > > for *content*. If you use one for the other, you have trouble. > > > > Manish > > > > > > > > > > Yahoo! Groups Links > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Yahoo! Groups Links > > > > > > >
