So the big news in the Flash development world is Google’s latest announcement that they have improved their indexing of Adobe Flash files. But what exactly does this mean to developers?
Google has been indexing Flash since 2004
Well, the news isn’t exactly as groundbreaking as some first thought. For starters, Google has already been indexing flash files since 2004. Google’s spiders have been able to view any static text information since shortly after Macromedia released their Flash Search Engine SDK. The difference with this latest update is that Google’s mystical little crawlers can now access dynamic text as well as recognize URLs in that text. (more…)