The indexing of content for Flash Players has got better in recent past. Around 2 years back, Google forged a collaboration with Adobe with the objective of improving Google’s potential to work on indexing Flash based content in terms of indexing. This advanced was followed a year later by the concept of external resource loading which furthered Google’s ability to index SWF. This advancement would make room for helping one index text files with the help of flash buttons and menus given in flash based websites. Nowadays, while working on any SWF file on any website, a user can have a look at almost any text. This is done with the help of Googlebot and this generates a snippet through Google searches. Moreover, Googlebot is also able to unearth URLs in these files and also track the links thereby making it possible for Google to index web pages also.
About a month back, Google came up with their latest progress in this area and this time it was a joint venture between Google and Adobe that would enable users to work on the latest Flash Players. The application is much better in terms of compatibility. This could be made possible because of progress in the area of JavaScript and SWF. This led to the improvement in video indexing as well. This has given rise to higher detection of a page having video and also of metadata which can be better extracted including thumbnails like Flash Player based videos. Therefore, the indexing technology used in SWF would be much better and enable us to glance thousands of pages on the internet.
In the opinion of Google, though, this is not the end and further features are in the offing. The next target is to better deep linking in terms of indexing as well as the betterment of SWF technologies by using JavaScript. This can also be done with the help of one Flash object if we submit a Sitemap in Google Webmaster Tools. But as mentioned earlier, this is not all. The technology is fast changing and more updates are awaited.
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