Google Blog မွာ July 1 ရက္ေန႔က Google Search က Flash ဖိုင္ေတြကို crawl လုပ္ႏိုင္မယ့္ algorithm အသစ္ကို စစမ္းေနၿပီ ၿဖစ္တဲ့ အေၾကာင္းေရးတာ ဖတ္လိုက္ရပါတယ္။ ဒါက တကယ္ေတာ့ သတင္းေကာင္းပါပဲ အရင္ကဆို web designer ေတြက Flash နဲ႔ menu ေတြ ေနာက္ page ေတြ သိပ္မလုပ္ၾကဘူး ေၾကာ္ၿငာ အတြက္ေလာက္သာ သံုးၾကပါတယ္။ မသံုးၾကတဲ့ အေၾကာင္းအရင္းက site content ကို search engine ေတြ crawl မလုပ္ႏိုင္ၾကလို႔ပါပဲ။ အခု ဒီအတိုင္းသာဆိုရင္ Flash ကို သီးသန္႔ရွာႏုိင္တာေတြ Google မွာ ရလာႏိုင္ပါတယ္။ ကြ်န္ေတာ္တို႔ မူရင္းပို႔စ္ကို ဖတ္ၾကည့္ရေအာင္ –

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.

In the past, web designers faced challenges if they chose to develop a site in Flash because the content they included was not indexable by search engines. They needed to make extra effort to ensure that their content was also presented in another way that search engines could find.

Now that we’ve launched our Flash indexing algorithm, web designers can expect improved visibility of their published Flash content, and you can expect to see better search results and snippets. There’s more info on the Webmaster Central blog about the Searchable SWF integration.

ေနာက္ေအာက္က Webmaster Central Blog က Questions & Answers ပါ..

Q: Which Flash files can Google better index now?

A: We’ve improved our ability to index textual content in SWF files of all kinds. This includes Flash “gadgets” such as buttons or menus, self-contained Flash websites, and everything in between.

Q: What content can Google better index from these Flash files?

A: All of the text that users can see as they interact with your Flash file. If your website contains Flash, the textual content in your Flash files can be used when Google generates a snippet for your website. Also, the words that appear in your Flash files can be used to match query terms in Google searches.

In addition to finding and indexing the textual content in Flash files, we’re also discovering URLs that appear in Flash files, and feeding them into our crawling pipeline—just like we do with URLs that appear in non-Flash webpages. For example, if your Flash application contains links to pages inside your website, Google may now be better able to discover and crawl more of your website.

Q: What do I need to do to get Google to index the text in my Flash files?

A: Basically, you don’t need to do anything. The improvements that we have made do not require any special action on the part of web designers or webmasters. If you have Flash content on your website, we will automatically begin to index it, up to the limits of our current technical ability (see next question).

That said, you should be aware that Google is now able to see the text that appears to visitors of your website. If you prefer Google to ignore your less informative content, such as a “copyright” or “loading” message, consider replacing the text within an image, which will make it effectively invisible to us.

Q: What are the current technical limitations of Google’s ability to index Flash?

A: There are three main limitations at present, and we are already working on resolving them:

1. 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.
2. 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.
3. 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.

Via : Google Blog