great info, thanks
On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 6:34 AM, Bobby <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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." > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "SWFObject" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/swfobject?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
