Engines rev up for Flash search
Search giants Google and Yahoo! are working with Adobe to improve the way in which they index Flash content.
In an announcement today (July 1st), Adobe said that it is providing its Flash player technology to the two firms in a bid to make Flash pages and applications more visible in search rankings.
Google has already made use of the technology, with users able to see many Flash-related results in search listings at present, while Yahoo! will make similar changes to its own system in due course.
The news comes shortly after Adobe released Acrobat 9, which now offers native support for Flash.
David Wadhwani of Adobe commented: "We are initially working with Google and Yahoo! to significantly improve search of this rich content on the web and we intend to broaden the availability of this capability to benefit all content publishers, developers and end users."
