Comments on: This week’s non-issue: Google indexes SWF files

By: » Flash et Google : les SWF pas si indexables que ça Tendances Web, CSS, Ergonomie, Marketing Internet - Blog de Smile Interactive

Fri, 01 Feb 2008 09:48:16 +0000

[...] les spécialistes sceptiques se mirent à réfléchir sur le sujet. Et le désenchantement s’opéra : tout cela n’a rien de [...]

By: laflex.org » Blog Archive » Google Indexing Flash Text with Adobe Search SDK

Wed, 23 Jan 2008 04:17:38 +0000

[...] Check out Theo Hultberg’s post on Iconara about why this is a non-issue and, in fact, why it is the wrong approach to indexing Flash [...]

By: Theo

Theo — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 14:58:56 +0000

RTFA: Google has changed their method of reading static text.

As if that would change anything.

By: zedia.net

zedia.net — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 14:37:16 +0000

Is it me or we’ve known for a long time that Google was referencing only staic text in Flash files, if I knew it I surely wasn’t the only one. I don’t understand this whole buzz lately.

By: Theo

Theo — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 11:36:58 +0000

There is a perfectly good solution: progressive enhancement/graceful degradation, talking about indexing SWF’s is only diverting the attention from that.

By: Ahmet

Ahmet — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 11:32:05 +0000

I agree with all the points you just mentioned, apart of the It doesn’t matter. It does matter to some people. Considering the fact that one of the worst critics about SWF content is the lack of indexing and accessibility. We should really work out a solution to offer more discoverability to multimedia content (http://www.technologyreview.com/Infotech/18847/), would it be text, images or videos.

Accepting the present situation is just not the way to solve this, is it?