Adobe introduced Search Engine SDK which helps to overcome with indexing and crawling of links and text in flash files!!

Will this be of any help?? This SDK also has REPEATING TEXT problem!

Ideas would be really helpful!!

The SDK may be useful for internal search engines (which I imagine is the target market), but it's highly unlikely to be used by major internet search engines:

http://forums.searchenginewatch.com/showthread.php?p=92536#post92536

Ian

Hi Ian,

Thanks for the quick reply!

SWF files are indexed by SE's loag ago. This Adobe SDK will index the content inside the SWF as it converted in to HTML file by the Software development Kit!

Have any thoughts on this? Kindly help

I'll be more clear - search engines can do this already - they just don't. They don't need the SDK to do it. While the SDK may make it easier, it's highly unlikely they will use it for the internet.

The problem with Flash is that it streams. You might not think this is a bad thing, but it means that in order to index it, you have to load the entire thing up first.

Right now, a webpage with some graphics on it may be, say, 200k in size (which is very large). A single Flash file can be megabites in size, and would have to be loaded before the SDK could begin to work.

Let's say it did. So what? What exactly is in that 1 MB Flash file?

1. An image moving / fading = no search value
2. Sound = no search value
3. Scripted behaviour = no search value
4. Database / server calls = no search value
5. Variables - no search value
6. Vectorized text = no search value
7. Normal text = search value
8. Links = search value

So you load up a few MB of file (multiplied over 8 billion pages or so) to get a couple of links and maybe, if you are lucky, some text. Since best practice currently is to load the text in from an external file, you would not usually even get that.

It's just not worth it, IMO (and apparently in the search engines opinion, as well)

Ian

I Couldn't agree more. I absolutley hate flash used on websites to covey information that could be done using HTML. I do feel that it is useful on some websites that would like to demo products.

Its not accessible, causes speed issues and just annoys the hell out of you. Especially those flash intro pages and menus!

Your website should be functional not cool!