Joseph DeVore's Blog: Adobe AIR

"Google and Yahoo! now have optimized Adobe Flash Player technology to enhance search engine indexing of SWF files. Best of all, developers don't have to do anything to their published SWFs for them to be indexed." - Holy crap!

Adobe has provided Flash Player technology to Google and Yahoo! that allows their search spiders to navigate through a live SWF application as if they were virtual users. The Flash Player technology, optimized for search spiders, runs a SWF file similarly to how the file would run in Adobe Flash Player in the browser, yet it returns all of the text and links that occur at any state of the application back to the search spider, which then appears in search results to the end user.

This has been a problem for a long time. Great to hear that Adobe is working with these search giants to make this happen - exciting times for RIA developers!

SWF searchability...

If you use Ext 2.0 then you are going to want this awesome little Adobe AIR application that Jack Slocum created. I installed it a few days ago and it's pretty sweet to have my own copy of the API docs whether I'm on or off line.

Thanks, Jack for another amazingly useful tool!

I suggest it to any one that uses Ext 2.0: http://jackslocum.com/blog/2008/02/14/air-docs/

plus I think Adobe AIR is cool :)