Google Can Index the Contents of Flash Files

[solidghost]

http://www.searchengineworkshops.com/articles/flash.html

I saw it in action in my company's website.
They read all the text. But that's it.

[solidghost]

More evidence.
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&q=new+filetype%3Aswf+

[sacx13]

SWF file format is a documented format and is not so hard to parse the string from flash. Anyway It cannot parse the "graphic" text just text

Regards

[solidghost]

Well, I tried a few but it isn't perfect.
Even the swf2html from Adobe doesn't get all the swf's text out.

[Darksat]

And they cant follow most links as well.

Still they are working on it.

[solidghost]

Crap.
I think it is seriously time for Search Engines to really start improving their indexing skills.

[sacx13]

Even the swf2html from Adobe doesn't get all the swf's text out.

The test is not hard to get ... but to get the "graphical text" ... there is the challenge !

Regards

[Gracia]

But as you probably know, Google has always been the first to index different types of content: PDF files, .doc files, etc. Google has also made amazing inroads in being able to index dynamic content.

And now they're the first major search engine to index Flash another significant step forward in the SEO industry.

[Darksat]

You can get good results with optimised flash files as well.