Google Webmaster Tools has created a page on how they work with Flash and other rich media files.
Regarding Flash, they say: “Google can now discover and index text content in SWF files of all kinds, including self-contained Flash websites and Flash gadgets such as buttons or menus. This includes all textual content visible to the user. Google supports common JavaScript techniques. In addition, we can now find and follow URLs embedded in Flash files. We’ll crawl and index this content in the same way that we crawl and index other content on your site–you don’t need to take any special action.”
And what about Silverlight? Well: “Google can crawl and index the text content of Flash files, but we still have problems accessing the content of other rich media formats such as Silverlight … In other words, even if we can crawl your content and it is in our index, it might be missing some text, content, or links.”
Enough said!
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