Copied from the Google Webmaster Central Blog:
http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2009/06/flash-indexing-with-external-resource.html
"We just added external resource loading to our Flash indexing
capabilities. This means that when a SWF file loads content from some
other file—whether it's text, HTML, XML, another SWF, etc.—we can
index this external content too, and associate it with the parent SWF
file and any documents that embed it.
This new capability improves search quality by allowing relevant
content contained in external resources to appear in response to
users' queries. For example, this result currently comes up in
response to the query [2002 VW Transporter 888]:
Prior to this launch, this result did not appear, because all of the
relevant content is contained in an XML file loaded by a SWF file.
To date, when Google encounters SWF files on the web, we can:
* Index textual content displayed as a user interacts with the
file. We click buttons and enter input, just like a user would.
* Discover links within Flash files.
* Load external resources and associate the content with the
parent file.
* Support common JavaScript techniques for embedding Flash, such
as SWFObject and SWFObject2.
* Index sites scripted with AS1 and AS2, even if the ActionScript
is obfuscated. Update on June 19, 2009: We index sites with AS3 as
well. The ActionScript version isn't particularly relevant in our
Indexing process, so we support older versions of AS in addition to
the latest.
If you don't want your SWF file or any of its external resources
crawled by search engines, please use an appropriate robots.txt
directive."
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