External resources
In this cool experiment we will try to figure out what is the current status of indexing xml content that is loaded into Adobe Flash.
- Can our favorite search engines (Google, Yahoo and MSN) index content that is loaded from XML?
- Will they follow links that are inside XML?
Experiment is created with Adobe Flash CS3 and published for Flash Player 9 and ActionScript 2.0
December 4th
After two months of waiting mr Google indexed XML file that was pulled with ActionScript
Check Google result page
ActinScript code was:
my_xml.load("http://www.flashnseo.com/carmen/carmen.xml");
November 23rd, 2008 at 1:41 am
Yup, they index it, but they index the xml file. Look:
http://ioj.com/u/get_file.php?id=725782&file=zr2r5kd475i7.jpg
The bottom link in that screenshot is the xml file, which if clicked links to the xml file locatition:
http://ioj.com/u/get_file.php?id=882260&file=xsi0t3knfief.jpg
http://www.flashnseo.com/carmen/carmen.xml
Here’s the original search I did:
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla%3Aen-US%3Aofficial&hs=kZh&q=cool+text+is+waiting+to+be+crawled&btnG=Search
James
from
http://FaceySpacey.com - “The Startup Incubator”
November 23rd, 2008 at 1:42 am
It would be great if they indexed the swf, and even auto-scrolled down to the position of the swf by opening up the page in an iframe like they do in google image search.
November 26th, 2008 at 9:53 am
The text is crawled and foundable
in google, but the link points to the xml itselfe. !@? Why ? do you have a link to the xml in html format?
December 4th, 2008 at 6:54 pm
Yes James,
it looks that Google finally picked up XML file.
Bad thing is that it is counting as a separate file and not part of flash
December 6th, 2008 at 1:32 am
That seems good if it’s something the user can use/feed. Definitely a good start. I wonder if it’s in the works to get the swf and/or html page that embeds the swf, indexed as well? Or if we need to wait a little longer for that to get indexed?
January 28th, 2009 at 5:37 am
Great! Thank you very much!
I always wanted to write in my site something like that. Can I take part of your post to my blog?
Of course, I will add backlink?
Sincerely, Your Reader
April 14th, 2009 at 8:16 pm
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