Tom Livingston wrote: >>Flash actually is searchable. There's even a >>search SDK for search engines. It's also >>accessible, with tab order/indexing, etc.
Search SDK was designed as a tool for search engines themselves to extract data from Flash (up to V6) files - the key issue, as outlined below, is "When a search engine deploys this SDK". It was lauched back in 2002. "The Macromedia Flash Search Engine SDK 1.0 provides search engines with the means to search and index Macromedia Flash (SWF) movies. The swf2html utility used by the SDK extracts text and links from a Macromedia Flash SWF file, and outputs it to stdout or to an HTML document. When a search engine deploys this SDK, users can locate relevant Flash content when searching by keyword or file type." Only one SE I know of ever deployed SDK - back in 2002. And that search engine got gobbled up by one of the larger ones. "The Macromedia Flash Search Engine SDK is designed for search engine application engineering teams. Users of the SDK can add Flash file decompression, parsing, and indexing features to their server-based search applications." http://www.macromedia.com/macromedia/accessibility/features/flash/player.html Macromedia's perception of accessibility is slightly different to many other peoples...... Make movies and put them on the internet if you want - but don't kid yourself that a text based indexing spider is interested in indexing or ranking them - unless you have substantial inbound links - and even then you'll only get ranked for one or two search phrases. Chris http://www.cogentis.com.au On Thu, 31 Mar 2005 15:17:31 +0100, Kornel Lesinski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 31 Mar 2005 14:35:50 +0100, Tom Livingston > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >> I'm not flaming you - but have you seen this: > >> > >> Why Google's indexing of swfs is worthless > >> http://www.quasimondo.com/archives/000404.php > > > > Same old same old. If you read the comments, one person states that he > > has a Flash-based forum that is entirely indexed by Google. > > Have you seen it? It's not Flash that gets indexed. > He outputs all content as HTML and puts Flash on top of it. > > -- > regards, Kornel Lesiński > > ****************************************************** > The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ > > See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm > for some hints on posting to the list & getting help > ****************************************************** > > ****************************************************** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list & getting help ******************************************************
