Who Cares About Indexing a SWF File? Not Me!
I just read a blog entry titled "Google's Indexing Flash Text with Adobe's SDK" over at O'Reilly's new fancy smancy InsideRIA website.
This isn't really too interesting to me since it's just for indexing static text. For me that means it would index my labels but not my real content from the database. Plus I keep my static text in separate language files so it wouldn't even be indexing the correct SWF anyways.
I don't think there will ever be a time where a crawler could actually run my flex app, screen scrap the dynamically loaded text, look for buttons to click and match up the deep linking url with the content. Honestly though, I don't care. I have an html version of the content for browsers without flash, it's optimized for search engines and since I didn't have to think too hard about usability it took me only a half hour to build it.
Plus, most Flex apps that I have seen you wouldn't even want to crawl (usually because the content is private). It's not like a crawler sees AJAX content either.
If this "issue" was solved, the people who have been bitching about it wouldn't even start developing with flash anyways. They will just find a new excuse, it's time to leave them behind.
Anyways.. Happy Monday.
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March 9th, 2008 - 12:56
yeah, good call… i think that since the 90s web browsers and search engines have been trying to treat the internet as though it were a static book that you have to read websites page by page. just look at the language that netscape invented “bookmarks”. let’s not forget the past but enter a new paradigm and move forward.