Google and Yahoo! to start indexing Flash files

This has been a long time coming!

Adobe is release technology to Google and Yahoo! that is going to allow both search engines to index content in Flash sites.

The engine “acts like a virtual user going through each application”. What it sees is then broken down to something the search robots can understand, making the huge amount of content in Flash-based sites visible to search engines.

Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) has always been a challenge for Flash sites and often the temptation is to deliver something flatter that will be better indexed by search engines rather than a richer experience.

Check out the full story at TechCrunch

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