Google in a recent development have announced that it has attained the ability to crawl websites made in flash. Previously Adobe presented Google & Yahoo with there SWF libraries so as both the companies could work on it to develop technology that could help there search engines to show results from flash based websites.

Flash or SWF was a glory of its time and gained tremendous attention from user end, it changed the face of the web by giving freedom to develop websites full of interactive media. But the only flaw in the system came to life when search engines were unable to crawl content within a flash website thus causing lack of traffic for website owners.

With this new development of Google being able to crawl thought a flash site new dimension and a new scope for flash based website is about to rise.

According to Google:

Google has been developing a new algorithm for indexing textual content in Flash files of all kinds, from Flash menus, buttons and banners, to self-contained Flash websites. Recently, we’ve improved the performance of this Flash indexing algorithm by integrating Adobe’s Flash Player technology.

• Googlebot does not execute some types of JavaScript. So if your web page loads a Flash file via JavaScript, Google may not be aware of that Flash file, in which case it will not be indexed.
• We currently do not attach content from external resources that are loaded by your Flash files. If your Flash file loads an HTML file, an XML file, another SWF file, etc., Google will separately index that resource, but it will not yet be considered to be part of the content in your Flash file.
• While we are able to index Flash in almost all of the languages found on the web, currently there are difficulties with Flash content written in bidirectional languages. Until this is fixed, we will be unable to index Hebrew language or Arabic language content from Flash files.