Does Google pick up text in a ticker?

[dodger]

I have a ticker running across the top of my homepage , will Goole pick up the text in the ticker when it crawls the site?

[Brett_Tabke]

no.

[MHes]

scrolling text? Yes

[Perplexed]

Maybe ( sorry, I couldn't resist it.)

[chiyo]

Depends on how it is delivered.

If the code is in java or javascript or flash much less chance of being indexed, if any.

Im no expert, but im not aware of any way to deliver scrolling text without it being via one of the methods above or something more complex which is beyond me and possible SE spiders too.

[mack]

Cant say I have ever seen text from any form of ticker being served as a snipet on Google.

If it is JS then I dont this it is possible to have it visible to a spider. (yet)

I just did a few Google searches for "scrolling ticker" I found a page that has very little other content apart from the ticker. I then copied the address into the Google search bar and did a search for it. The snipped did not have any content from the ticker. Just the page title and some other page content.

Mack.

[MHes]

Hi

I experimented with this some months ago. Marquee text ranked very well and still does.
Please don't ask for the url, you will have to trust me!

[creative craig]

I had a PR5 web site that never ranked on scrolling text that was there for 6 months. I checked on it often but could never find it!

Craig

[dodger]

Thanks everyone - I had a look round for a site with a ticker like mine searched for it on google using words that were in the ticker and viewed the cache'd page and the searched words that were in the ticker weren't highlighted so there's the answer I guess - No - should have stopped at Brett's post :)

My ticker is in a seperate file (ticker.asp) not the actual homepage so I guess that would have to change in any case to get picked up if it was possible which it appears it isn't. (do I sound confused?)

Interesting that marqee text had success with this?

While we're at it I presume that the further up the page the text is the better? I have a footer with some nice keywords/phrases in but I wonder how effective it is.

[rcjordan]

see example A 12.45 [google.com]

[dodger]

Thanks rcjordan much appreciated, I'm not the tech person but I've sent it along to my programmer to have a look at.