Jul 01 2008
Flash sites will no longer be invisible to Google & Yahoo search engine crawlers!
It was announced today that flash will now be crawl-able to major search engines thanks to Adobe. About F*ing time. Great news though, especially if you work for an agency who specializes in interactive media. Here at jloop, in the past we have struggled between the rich presentation we can deliver through flash elements and the trade off of near-invisibility in search results. Sounds like very soon we can have the best of both worlds; “flashy-flash” as our clients put it & search crawler-friendly content (even URLs inside of flash movies can be followed by the Google-bots).
Here’s some more to read on this great news:
http://mashable.com/2008/07/01/google-adobe-flash-search/
http://www.webpronews.com/topnews/2008/07/01/adobe-helps-google-yahoo-search-flash-files
http://www.informationweek.com/news/internet/search/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=208801861
now get back to work flash developers! 