I see that most people are little confused about it. They think that even if google starts doing that it will not be very good. This may be true. Considering that Flash websites are mostly about animation, multimedia gimmick than text information. So even when Google can read and index Flash files there is not much to index anyway! As the google guy says:
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| Historically, I've been mildly skeptical about the information content of Flash files (e.g. there's not usually straight text in there; it's more like characters/words plus paths and such, as folks here know, and the prior probability of high information content is probably lower than say .pdf), but I figure it can't hurt to have the capability to read swf, and then down the road we can see how it affects relevance. Just my personal take on it, of course; bear in mind that I haven't talked to the person who was looking at Flash. |
I think, it might be a good idea for webmasters to offer an HTML version of their Flash site, if they must use Flash. What do you think?
