Macromedia Flash Search Engine SDK

Will this mean Google could soon be indexing flash pages?

[driesie]

Hope this link is fine (remove the stars):

[macromedia.com...]

I just stumbled accross it. It's an SDK for SE engineers to give access to the flash content, and index "pages" within the flash file using the "bookmark" mechanism in FlashMX.

I wonder if this is going to be picked up by the major SEs, in particular google. Will we soon see properly index flash sites in google?

[edited by: Marcia at 10:34 pm (utc) on Aug. 22, 2003]
[edit reason] Removed stars. [/edit]

[Marcia]

It says "Powered by Google" so apparently they must know about it.

[Dolemite]

> It says "Powered by Google" so apparently they must know about it.

Every page on the site says "Powered by Google". ;)

That's just for their site search.

[Marcia]

>>Every page on the site says "Powered by Google".
Then they know who's who. They need to take the right Googlers to lunch. ;)

As if PDF's weren't bad enough, I'd hate to click on a page when searching and have to deal with Flash opening up.

[sidyadav]

Anyway, If it does start indexing Flash pages, what content of the Flash file will it index?
1) An new META tag editor for Flash developers, they can include so Search engine's can index the META tags?

2) Get the text out of Flash pages?

3) Just the name of the Flash page, for example if the flash file's name is search.swf , And someone searches for the keyword "search" it will just give the link without any META description or any thing below it?

I think it should be META.

-Sid

[doc_z]

This was recently discussed in the Google and Flash files [webmasterworld.com] thread (also related: Google showing flash results! [webmasterworld.com]).