Flash content and search engine index

Does text in HTML comments help?

[pmkpmk]

I happened to translate a manufacturer's microsite with a program called SwishMax. Upon exporting the Flash, the generated HTML includes ALL text used inside the presentation like this:

<!-- text used in the movie -->
<!-- widget, wadget,wudget, -->
<!-- wedget, wodget -->

Do they know something which I don't know about indexing of Flash in search engines? Does it really help to have ALL the text used in HTML comments?

[Jon_King]

Those are HTML comments and they will be skipped by bots.

An HTML comment begins with "<!--", ends with "-->" and does not contain "--" or ">" anywhere in the comment. Any notes you like in your source may be stored there.

One of the better articles on getting text into a Flash site:
[sitepoint.com...]

[pmkpmk]

Thanks Jon_King, I know what HTML comments are :-) Nevertheless there have been rumours all along that some bots (like the Yahoo spider) index certain(!) specially crafted HTML comments as well. And I was wondering if the SwishMax comments belong into this category and if anybody has experiences with that.

I'll check out your URL right away, but I am limited to that $%§@#$-program and have no liberty to use something else.