Making Some Progress in Flash Search Indexing?

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There have been a couple of posts recently about Google’s ability to search Flash files. And it looks like we’re getting some good news. The latest is over on InsideRIA. Dominic Gelineau has been doing some experiments and noticed as recently as October 14th that things have started to change for the better. The other post was by Brian Ussery. He’s been also running a long series of experiments and while the results aren’t quite what I was hoping, things may have changed recently. Possibly most interesting from Brian’s research is that Flash files can now have their own page rank independent of the root URL (see case study #2).

So it doesn’t seem like we’re perfect yet, but we’re making progress after the announcement earlier this year. It seems like Google is starting tweak the algorithm and figure out how to get it working as people expect. That’s good news.

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  • http://www.zedia.net zedia.net

    I made those experiments for your Flex SEO contest so I wanted to thank you because it gave me the possibility to have that article on InsideRIA.

    Thx dude

  • http://www.beussery.com/blog Brian Ussery

    Thanks for mentioning my post Ryan! Google indexing text content in Flash is one of the most exciting advances I’ve seen in years. By sharing my findings, I hope to help speed up the process.

  • http://polyGeek.com polyGeek

    There will be much rejoicing when I can use Google to do a site search on Fleximagically.com.

    At least Fleximagically.com has a PageRank. It’s a start.

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