Re: How much flash is too much?

On Thu, 15 Sep 2005 09:11:49 +0100, Davémon <nospam@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>Roy Schestowitz wrote:
>> Flash, in principle, is proprietary. Attempts to hack it and extract some
>> information out of it would be computationally expensive so I imagine that
>> crawlers will not care enough to crawl/descent to it very often.
>
>Sometimes I wonder if you guys ever check anything!
>
>http://www.google.com/search?q=elephant+filetype%3Aswf
>
>that's filetype:swf
>
>Google crawls and registers flash files, and has done for years.

Bits of them. If some content is rendered in such and such a way, bits
of it, undetermined bits of it, may be indexable. We've been
monitoring the situation closer than you, apparently.


>It doesn't do anything with them in terms of normal search results, I'd
>guess because they haven't found an easy, reliable (i.e. hierarchical)
>way of determining its text-contents relevance to a given search (The
>results seem to be heavily influenced by IBLs).

Waste of time for SEO then, isn't it?

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