Google Improves Flash Search

[ann]

Google improve its indexing of Flash content through Flash indexing algorithm; Read More: Official Google Webmaster Central Blog: Flash indexing with external resource loading

[Matten]

Thanks for the link Ann!

Good News for those who have Flash Content sites and were disappointed with Google till date. Hope this will make them happy especially when their sites are viewed in search results.

[Fatih]

that's good news indeed but I don't think it is for 100% flash site. Is that?

[brando]

^ Flash has its place but everything should go under moderation, better avoid creating a website entirely in Flash.

[nickgrnt]

Originally Posted by ann

Google improve its indexing of Flash content through Flash indexing algorithm; Read More: Official Google Webmaster Central Blog: Flash indexing with external resource loading

That's a great news, Ann. A few days before i read somewhere that Adobe is working with Google and Yahoo to make SWF file SEO friendly. This is going to be great for flash websites. As before when google was unable to index the flash files, people used to create a different url for each page of the sites flash content. Now, google has the capability to index the SWF file, this surely going to save much time.

[Richie]

That's certainly a very good news as the designers can add more to the website without using a lot of resources. However on still has to be careful with these new updates as it does take too much time in getting things implemented for such changes.

[Serena]

Yes, it is a good news! Now, even I can work on my site and add some Flash Content. Hope that google indexes my site as well

Is there any limit on the content size that google or any SE can index? or can it be of any size?

[Matthew Barthorpe]

It should logically be of any size, though am not sure about it. I tried to do some research on this and found that :
1. Googlebot for the time being does not execute some types of JavaScript. So if your web page loads a Flash file via JavaScript, Google might not recognise and would not get indexed.
2. Google does not attach content from external resources which are loaded by the Flash files. Google will separately indexes Flash file which loads an HTML file, an XML file, another SWF file, etc., but it isn't yet be considered to be part of the content in your Flash file.
3. Google is capable to index Flash in almost all of the languages found on the web except for Hebrew language or Arabic language content from Flash files.

[ann]

Thanks Matthew for that information, I hope one should always keep space for file descriptions and keywords because it will have some benefit for indexing flash content.