AdobeSearch engines have been unable to extract content such as text and links from Flash (SWF) files, limiting searchers from seeing potentially great matches for their queries, and causing many web developers great frustration in trying to work around this obstacle.

This is about to change as Adobe and Google is working on what they call “a deep algorithmic change”, augmented by Flash reader technology supplied by Adobe, which will enable search engines to read Flash files and extract text and links for better indexing and ranking.

Visit Search Engine Land for more details.

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