On 18th of June Google announced that now they support Flash indexing with external resource loading.
Quoting Janis Stipins, Software Engineer at Google:
This means that when a SWF file loads content from some other file – whether it’s text, HTML, XML, another SWF, etc. – we can index this external content too, and associate [...]
This article will explain how to create a wildcard search. What I mean is the following:
dir *.*
or
dir myfile??.txt
The old DOS searching way. The first command (if you’ll run them in Command Prompt) returns all files with extension from the current folder. The second command will return any file having its name as this: [...]
This is a great news! I’ve been waiting for this to happen for a long time. If you don’t believe me that Google is indexing flash try to search on Google by this kind of phrases: “flex filetype:swf“; and you’ll get a list of SWF files that were indexed by Google.
How does Google do this? [...]