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Why Google Shouldn’t Index Flash
Apropos Adobe’s latest PR gimmick, Robert Hansen asks, how happy are you going to be when Google sends you to some complex Flash movie as the result of a web search? How do you feel when you see PDFs or PowerPoints in the results right now? I routinely skip over them as “more trouble than they are worth”.
If the information you are looking for is buried in a Flash movie, there is no way to link to it directly. You will end up searching, quite possibly in vain, through menus and animations until you find what Google promised. Not pleasant.
I call this the 3 Legged Dog problem: when your theater company’s website is built using Flash, how does someone link to a specific event on your calendar? They can’t, I’ve tried.
