Google's Crawlers Can Now Index Flash Pages

A big annoyance of the Internet, flashy and unnecessary Flash-built Web pages, is being remedied with an announcement that Google has developed a way to index those Flash-built pages for its search engine.

The problem with Flash Web pages is that the URL address always remains the same. Despite how deep you dig into a Flash page, the Web address is always the same, which makes it hard to not only link to specific items on a Flash page, but also makes it difficult for the search engine crawlers to index Flash pages beyond the main page.

Google has announced that a new algorithm has been developed to index all of the text within a Flash Web page, therefore making search engine results even more accurate. While the more accurate search results will be good, it still won't give Flash pages the ability to directly link within the Flash, which is my personal biggest annoyance.

On one hand, this is a great news because it will broaden search engine results by including contents within a Flash Web page, but on the other hand it could be a downer because one of the big negatives of building Flash web pages is now remedied and designers may be more inclined to build Web pages in this very annoying format.

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