Great that it is now associated.
Previously it ("Ichabod" - the headless Flash player which Google ands other
search engines use to index Flash content) indexed the external content
separately, so it was a shock for developers who relied on security through
obscurity on calling in data from text files, XML, php pages etc - suddenly
you could see all the raw data in Google results!
Does anyone have any links showing actual results, and how they are linked
etc?
Aran
On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 5:45 AM, Philip Hutchison <[email protected]>wrote:
> 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."
>>
>>
>>
>
> >
>
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