Google showing flash results!

I hoped this day would never come :(

[BigDave]

I was just checking the number of pages on a site where I was talking to the webmaster the other day and came across thai entry

[FLASH]www.domain.com/opening.swf.swf
File Format: Shockwave Flash - View as HTML

I have not see this in any real search results yet, just a site: search.

[g1smd]

Umm, I haven't seen that; but how long has the stock quotes entry been there? I just noticed that one today.

>> www.macromedia.com/ - 16k - Cached - Similar pages - Stock quotes: MACR
[ More results from www.macromedia.com ] <<

[rfgdxm1]

Google indexing flash? Truly, they are going over to the dark side. :(

[twilight47]

>> www.macromedia.com/ - 16k - Cached - Similar pages - Stock quotes: MACR

Yeah, what's up with that. I have never seen that before.
Anyone?

[claus]

see this:

[google.com ]

/claus

[g1smd]

Stock Quotes in a lot of places:

www.gucci.com/ - 2k - Cached - Similar pages - Stock quotes: GUC

www.ibm.com/ - 26k - Cached - Similar pages - Stock quotes: IBM

www.walmart.com/ - 62k - Cached - Similar pages - Stock quotes: WMT

Or, maybe I have been napping?

[kstprod]

Google, in the last couple weeks, has been picking up my Flash files also. I get the same listings as described above, but only if I search site:www.mysite.com/. In a normal search, they don't show.

I don't really see the point to this, as .swf files will never have a title or description, right? The HTML bases of those .swf files also show up using site: but I've only began trying to optimize those.

[GoogleGuy]

Stock symbols have been in there forever (couple years or so?). You can also just type in a stock symbol as a query, like this:
[google.com...]

[RBuzz]

Could you sticky me with your Flash example? I can't replicate it. I do know there's at least one other filetype Google's indexing but which doesn't appear as a file search option on its advanced search page...

too much free time,

RBuzz

[genericusername]

The flash search has been there for ages...I don't think that this is new.

[google.com...]

[RBuzz]

The filetype syntax search, absolutely. But BigDave is talking about SWF results indexed and available as HTML, which is definitely new.

[Patrick Taylor]

A lot of people design great websites with Flash content. Why wouldn't Google make a stab at indexing content within a .swf file provided it's within an html page? And .swf files don't have title or description but the html page does.

[new_BEE]

Hello BigDave!

I just sent you a private message. If you don’t mind please take a look at it.

new_BEE

[werty]

I am showing 3.4 million indexed swf files:
[google.com...]

There has been a few posts talking about how google will throw in special features to random(maybe specific?) queries just to see how people react to them and I assume to test them out. Perhaps this is one of those times.

I have never seen this feature, I sure would like to test it out though.