Comments on: Why Google isn’t indexing dynamic content (yet)

By: Tom H

Tom H — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 10:13:02 +0000

What I’m worried about now is will the Flash content of a progressively-enhanced site be used instead of the good ‘ol HTML? I hope Google have a mechanism in place for deciding if it’s best they crawl the Flash, the HTML, or both.

By: Arul

Arul — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 09:57:27 +0000

Google do not index the dynamic contents. Because dynamic contents are invisible to google crawler eyes.

By: Jensa

Jensa — Sun, 27 Jul 2008 20:25:13 +0000

Hi, I interviewed Justin about this some time ago. You can find details here:

http://www.flashmagazine.com/News/detail/swfs_to_become_fully_searchable/

By: Theo

Theo — Sun, 27 Jul 2008 13:22:58 +0000

@Nuno

Unless the deep linking implementation assumes that EI will always be available there should be no problem, I'm thinking more of applications that are integrated with Ajax-based applications on the same page, or for other reasons don't work if EI is not available. If a site works in the standalone Flash Player it should be OK.

By: Nuno Rosa

Nuno Rosa — Sun, 27 Jul 2008 12:52:30 +0000

"Any calls to ExternalInterface will fail,(...)" Hope not, because even if google indexes some content most of it will use EI for deeplinking.

"(...)how will the indexer be able to discern which display objects that act as buttons?(...)" My guess is that their approach might be to crawl the display list looking for InteractiveDisplayObject descendants and if they have any listeners subscribing mouse events, triggers it.

Adobe should release more info on how the "player" interacts with content, for now, that's more important than what is or what isn't indexed. The announcement was more to create the hype inside the community, let's see what comes next.