Macromedia Creates Developer Tool Kit to Convert Flash Web Sites
Macromedia, the maker of the popular Flash tool for Web animations, is courting search engines in a bid to raise the visibility of Flash-created content, which is frequently passed over in Web indexes. Macromedia has created a developer tool kit to help fix some of the stumbling blocks to reading graphics-laden pages versus text pages. The tool kit is designed to convert a Flash file's text and links into HTML for indexing. So far, Fast Search & Transfer's AllTheWeb has announced support for the tool and started indexing Flash pages. Google has said it can extract links from Flash pages but has not adopted the developer kit Macromedia issued. [Full story: Translating Flash for search sites CNET News]
Posted under Search Engine Optimization on March 08, 2003.
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