Webmasters often ask us how to index content designed for the Flash player, so we wanted to take a moment to update you on our progress in this area. Nearly two years ago, we announced significant improvements to Google's ability to index content based on Flash technology through our partnership with Adobe. Last year, we made another announcement, announcing the addition of external resource upload features to SWF indexing functionality. This technological advancement allows us to index all types of text content in SWF files - from Flash buttons and menus to websites based on self-contained Flash technology.
Currently, Google bots can index nearly all text content that users see when interacting with SWF files on a website and use it to generate snippet screenshots or match queries in Google searches. In addition, Google bots can also discover URLs in SWF files and follow these links, so if your SWF content contains links to internal pages of your website, Google will be able to search and index the pages.
Last month, we expanded our SWF indexing capabilities, leveraging our ongoing partnership with Adobe. This extension leverages a new, more stable library that is compatible with features supported by Flash Player 10.1. In addition, improvements to the way JavaScript is handled allow us to better organize and index sites that use JavaScript to embed SWF content. Finally, we have also improved the video indexing technology, which can improve search efficiency when web pages contain videos, and can also better provide metadata, such as extracting metadata from videos based on Flash technology, such as videos using Flash technology. Replacement thumbnail in . In short, using SWF indexing technology, we can now see the contents of SWF files contained in thousands of web pages.
Our SWF content indexing technology has made tremendous progress over the past few years, but we won't stop there. We will continue to improve deep linking capabilities (content within Flash technology applications that are linked by the same application), as well as further improve search of SWF files executed through JavaScript. You can help us improve these features by creating a unique link to a single Flash object for each page and submitting a sitemap through Google Webmaster Tools.
We're pleased with what we've achieved so far and hope to keep you updated on improvements to the technology.
Original English text: What a feeling! Even better indexing of SWF content