They must be planning on releasing an API to the public eventually. Otherwise, I don't think MS would turn the offer down, thinking it a good decision to help Silverlight beat Flash. They know if Google supports searching flash, whether they support it or not won't make a difference at all. I think Adobe and co just want to kill MS and an potential of a silverlight threat--that's all.
The real question, as you say pretty much, is of course when do the little guys get access to the flash search APIs???
(note: I don't think it's wrong at all--it's common business tactics. The point is Adobe wants Google and Yahoo to expend significant resources in time, money etc to make this happen. So, it's not some big evil business tactic that is just "plain wrong" as you say. It's also a way to incentive making a useful technology widespread. A lot of people want to make claims about large companies doing all sorts of "evil" things, when in reality, the very nature of business is what propells the proper execution of things as well as innovation like this. So why should the little guy's get access to it, when Google will sooner allow us to search flash files by the incentive provided by Adobe??? It makes perfect sense to me, and I'm sure part of the plan is to open it up to smaller companies ine 6 months or a year, after which Google probably paved the way for everyone else!)
Depending on how they implement the search feature, it could add a new dimension to search engine spam. Imagin how many words you could include within a flash document without screwing up your layout.... scary
AndyBeard
· 1 year ago
It is just the old Adobe search SDK finally being supported. Here is what is really going on... the tech bloggers have been suckered.
To really add to Andy comment, this is not a major event, a major event would have been to admit that Flash/Flex designer developers need to change their ways to develop Search engine friendly sites and to provide tools for them to do so. Until Adobe and Google agree a method of headings and other ranking factors their is no way Google can truly rank a flash file. That is of course if they can get beyond the fact a flash file is an object who's basis is time based while pages and websites in general are flat and interlinked these are two very separate objects matching them is not going to be easy!
Facey Spacey Technologies
· 1 year ago
Well, I personally am hoping that this announcement means they'll Adobe et all will address all the said issues, e.g: so you click search result for a flash file and it opens up that web-page with the exact place in the timeline of the flash file that the searched for text appears.
I would assume that exactly what they are working on is to finally address that issue. Would you guys disagree?
Search is not - or should not be - about the companies. It should be about all the companies being able to provide the best results they can to anyone who wants to use any search engine they choose]
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They must be planning on releasing an API to the public eventually. Otherwise, I don't think MS would turn the offer down, thinking it a good decision to help Silverlight beat Flash. They know if Google supports searching flash, whether they support it or not won't make a difference at all. I think Adobe and co just want to kill MS and an potential of a silverlight threat--that's all.
The real question, as you say pretty much, is of course when do the little guys get access to the flash search APIs???
(note: I don't think it's wrong at all--it's common business tactics. The point is Adobe wants Google and Yahoo to expend significant resources in time, money etc to make this happen. So, it's not some big evil business tactic that is just "plain wrong" as you say. It's also a way to incentive making a useful technology widespread. A lot of people want to make claims about large companies doing all sorts of "evil" things, when in reality, the very nature of business is what propells the proper execution of things as well as innovation like this. So why should the little guy's get access to it, when Google will sooner allow us to search flash files by the incentive provided by Adobe??? It makes perfect sense to me, and I'm sure part of the plan is to open it up to smaller companies ine 6 months or a year, after which Google probably paved the way for everyone else!)
James
from
FaceySpacey.com - "The Startup Incubator"
Google and Adobe just want to fight Silverlight
http://scobleizer.com/2008/07/01/adobe-flash-ge...
Depending on how they implement the search feature, it could add a new dimension to search engine spam. Imagin how many words you could include within a flash document without screwing up your layout.... scary
Here is what is really going on... the tech bloggers have been suckered.
http://www.timnash.co.uk/07/2008/swf-indexing/
I would assume that exactly what they are working on is to finally address that issue. Would you guys disagree?
James
from
FaceySpacey.com - "The Startup Incubator"
SEO for RIA: the status a few days later :
[And making echo of Steven Hodson from Mashable!
Search is not - or should not be - about the companies. It should be about all the companies being able to provide the best results they can to anyone who wants to use any search engine they choose]
http://bits.samiq.net/2008/07/seo-for-ria-statu...