Web Design | Home Web Design Forums < Back to NewsForNow.com	Search Engines Can Now Search Through Flash .swf Files 07/05/2008 Writer: Mark "Line" Cansino July 1st 2008, Adobe announced that Adobe Flash Technology has been provided to Google and Yahoo to help flash sites now be indexed. This means, if you've ever made a flash site before, the .swf will now be indexed as well as the html, there by giving you more traffic from search engine results. The only downsides that I still forsee, is that because a majority of flash sites are all self contained and are not on seperate .html files as pages, the result will bring a visitor to a main .swf container and while what they searched for may be in that .swf, the user won't be brought to a specific page within that .swf. But hey, at least they got to your site right? Things to note: 1) while this debut makes flash searchable, the engines currently only read English text in flash. Hopefully, other languages will be spiderable soon. 2) Text or html text brough in via an outside document like .txt or .xml or another source, will not be searched, it's only text within flash itself. While I think this is awesome for all web designers doing sites in flash, the one request I hope Adobe and the search engines can figure out is if we were to use anchored pages within our .swf - that the search engines would pull up our .swf's with a #nameanchor extension to place the user right on the page of content their search keywords were found on. For more information on this new ability check out Adobe's press release on Adobe Rich Media Search by clicking here. Like this content? Click the Digg button to the left to help make it more diggable to others! Discuss this article in the forums - Click here. About the writer: Mark "Line" Cansino With a background 2D and 3D art/illustration/animation, Line has created quite a few cool pieces of web history. Line is also the founder/creator of NewsForNow.com and would be more than happy to assist you with any questions. You can also check out Line's company web site: The LineDetail Drawing Co. | Theme Based Web Site Design, Art & Animation at www.LineDetail.com Line's Other Interests: Movies, Games, Technology, Learning different languages and trying new things.	^ Web Design Ads ^
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