Google Now Crawling And Indexing Flash Content. Historically, search engines have been unable to extract content, such as text and links, from Flash (SWF) files.
Subsequently, much of the Flash-based content on the web has been unavailable in search results. This situation has been frustrating for web developers, who have tried to come up with workarounds to help get search engines to index and rank their Flash pages. Google I/O: New Advances In The Searchability of JavaScript and. This week at Google I/O, Google talked a lot about the evolution of the technological capabilities of the web.
HTML 5 is ushering in new era of browser-based development and applications. Eric Schmidt, Google CEO, kicked things off with, “My message to you is that this is the beginning of the real win of cloud computing, of applications, of the internet, which is changing the paradigm that we’ve all grown up with so that it just works … regardless of platform or hardware you’re using.”