Flashosphere

Flash + Google = ?

Sorry for the lack of updates, everyone: I’m currently in Switzerland enjoying the fondue (true story). However, I did stumble across something interesting during my last five-Franc Internet session. Although we’ve all heard for years that Google does index SWFs in some mysterious way, no one has really understood exactly what that meant. All we knew was that it was pretty much useless. However, it looks like Google is getting a little more serious about it, as mentioned in the links below.

Google’s blog:
Google Learns to Crawl Flash

Adobe’s press release:
Adobe Advances Rich Media Search on the Web

However, I still have no idea what this means. After all, any Flash RIA developer worth his salt will be bringing in all his/her data dynamically instead of embedding it in the SWF. I would assume this is the data that Google will be reading, non? Otherwise I’m not sure how it would be different than what we’ve got now. And also because I like to hope for the best, and that would be pretty slick. Game-changing, I’d even say.

So anyway, I’ll leave the in-depth analysis to others. The Alps, after all, are calling.

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