Google learning to index SWF files. Still a long way to go.
Posted by igarciaoliver | Filed under General Information
I’ve learned thru google’s blog that, on a collaboration with Adobe, the google bot can now index text inside a SWF. Yahoo is also capable of this apparently, since they were also involved with Adobe during the research.
The post on googleblog doesn’t give a lot of details but there is also a post at google webmaster central which provides much more information but stills manages to leave the important points in the dark.
Google spiders run the SWF file and clicks everywhere much like a hot blooded visitor would. Whenever it captures text, it gets indexed, If it finds a link, it add the target to it’s “to-crawl” lists and will eventually index it too.
That the good part but there are still plenty of limitations and a lot to accomplish.
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