Google and Yahoo now recognize flash content!
Many of those who work in the development of web sites know how wildly popular flash sites are with clients and what is not popular in everything else. One of the reasons is the anti-glitch flash sites. This is expressed by the fact that the content of flash sites is not visible for search robots, and, as a result, for the rest of the world. But this is no longer be! Today, Adobe has announced its unification with Google and Yahoo so that the content of flash sites will finally become visible to search engines.
This agreement was prepared for quite a long time, all due to the fact that Adobe had several ways to solve this problem and now they seem to have chosen the best of them.
Prior to this, it has already been claimed that search robots are already able to recognize static text and links in flash documents (* .SWF). Well, the dynamic content that takes place on flash sites remained unprocessed.
This agreement will lead to some changes in the usability of flash sites, not doubt for the better. On one of the blogs, Google stated that it was already able to recognize all textual content in flash documents (Text on buttons, Widgets, menu). Google also knows how to collect all the links in a flash document in order to indicate the next site to the spider for indexing. Anyway, this technology does not apply to FLV files that can be found on sites like YouTube.
Google says that this has become possible thanks to a new “human-like” algorithm that explores the flash site in the way a regular user would. Ie the algorithm goes through all the pages by clicking on all the buttons. The algorithm remembers all the text after which the text and become indexable for search engines.
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Unfortunately, for the time being, Google and Yahoo will not be able to index all the content of flash sites. The text in the pictures remains invisible to search engines, as well as some Java scripts that are saved separately from the HTML or XML file, such scripts will not be considered part of the flash site. But experts are already working on this. In the near future, all the content located on flash sites and not only will be visible to search engines.
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This agreement was prepared for quite a long time, all due to the fact that Adobe had several ways to solve this problem and now they seem to have chosen the best of them.
Prior to this, it has already been claimed that search robots are already able to recognize static text and links in flash documents (* .SWF). Well, the dynamic content that takes place on flash sites remained unprocessed.
This agreement will lead to some changes in the usability of flash sites, not doubt for the better. On one of the blogs, Google stated that it was already able to recognize all textual content in flash documents (Text on buttons, Widgets, menu). Google also knows how to collect all the links in a flash document in order to indicate the next site to the spider for indexing. Anyway, this technology does not apply to FLV files that can be found on sites like YouTube.
Google says that this has become possible thanks to a new “human-like” algorithm that explores the flash site in the way a regular user would. Ie the algorithm goes through all the pages by clicking on all the buttons. The algorithm remembers all the text after which the text and become indexable for search engines.
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Unfortunately, for the time being, Google and Yahoo will not be able to index all the content of flash sites. The text in the pictures remains invisible to search engines, as well as some Java scripts that are saved separately from the HTML or XML file, such scripts will not be considered part of the flash site. But experts are already working on this. In the near future, all the content located on flash sites and not only will be visible to search engines.
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Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/28349/
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