Comments on: Uncloaking 'invisible' Flash Web content

Adobe is providing technology to Google and Yahoo to help them better index dynamic content and rich Internet applications. Here's the lowdown on what it means.

[rocwoof]

Just what we need more incentive to use that unfriendly, piggish Flash that keeps becoming incompatible with whatever I have installed (esp on Linux) as the developers keep "pushing the envelope", and suck up bandwidth, and make more stuff impossible to see on my phone or PDA. Oh, well - less info overload, if I can't look at it ;-}

[i_made_this]

Just what we need - more mostly lousy, cumbersome and time-consuming Flash content that slows down a search by 90% and - if it's a product / service purchase search, that crappy Flash code kills loads of sales the way it is now. 'nyway, we stand *improved* cause Adobe, Google and Yahoo said so... . I liked this bit very much - very entertaining when the interviewer asked Adobe if we can turn the darned *optimization* off if we wanted, she replies "sort of" and goes on to qualify that as a "no" lol. Hooray technology!

[Anysia]

I am so glad I have Firefox with FlashBlock, NoScript and Adblock Plus. I want to surf the web, not suffer it.

[TedPeterson]

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[igl00lgi]

Ugg, more flash crud. I am so tired of my browser bogging down.

[SnidleyWhiplash]

You're complaining about bad implementations, not the technology. I assume if you were hit by a car you'd blame Henry Ford? But you can always go back to using your IBM Selectric if you are frightened of all this newfangled technology stuff.

[benjaminstraight]

Flash? Is that what it is called?

[inachu]

This is great then I can add swf blocking more easily to websites that abuse the tricks people use to use drop down ads that interrupt my reading by outright banning them from ever working.

[Farthing Haypenny]

I agree about Flash, I hate it and avoid it whenever possible. Note to web sites that don't allow an alternative. I avoid you like the plague.

[TroyYo]

A small startup has been crawling and indexing Flash content for some time now. It's kind of cool. If you want to check it out: http://mediawombat.com

[TroyYo]

A small startup has been crawling and indexing Flash content for some time now. It's kind of cool. If you want to check it out: http://mediawombat.com

[limefan913]

On the positive side, that's more information available.

On the negative, I run linux. Flash support is often spotty at best. I've got to occasionally restart my browser just to get the damned Flash app to work. I think Adobe needs to give the couple percent of us some attention too.

[doug3673]

Yes booo flash... such horrible technology. Thank God all of you have swf block so you can continue staring at websites from 1996 with black times new roman text on a white background. We don't need Youtube or on-demand video streams from major network broadcasters... all of which use flash technology. We don't need rich media applications that communicate with servers in realtime without the need for refreshing static page after static page. We LOVE refreshing! We love static information!