
A while back I blogged about the the trend in web content being developed using Rich Internet Application technolgies such as Flash & Silverlight. Previous Blog
Well an interesting announcement comes from Adobe which looks to address some of these issue going forward. Snippet below. Full article on business week here. Story.
"Flash, software, Adobe, Google, Yahoo, search engine, Web, Macromedia, photos, animationIf you're trawling the Web to buy a pair of Nikes, shop for a Volkswagen, or get a glimpse of Walt Disney's Wall-E, chances are you'll end up viewing graphics built with Adobe Systems' Flash software. Good luck finding them with a search engine, though. Turns out Google and other Web-search tools can't easily recognize pages laden with Flash-created images.
At least not yet. Adobe (ADBE) announced steps to solve those problems on July 1, providing Google (GOOG) and Yahoo! (YHOO) with software that will make pages inside Flash-powered sites show up higher in search results and infuse those results with more relevant details. Adobe's moves could persuade more consumers to visit its customers' sites and make Flash software more attractive to Web site developers. Adobe's agreements with the two biggest search engines on the Web is also a competitive slap at Microsoft (MSFT), which makes Web software that competes with Adobe's."