Comments on: Microsoft’s response to runtime search

By: 网站优化

网站优化 — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 08:01:55 +0000

I catch it

By: Justin

Justin — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 19:02:24 +0000

@Northcode: You are absolutely right that the power of Flash is in the power and expressiveness, but it shouldn’t have to be a choice between that and good searchability.

If an application does require a login as step 1, the search engine is out of luck. That is true of any technology though. That is also a site design choice.

For example, I like to play games on Kongregate.com which let’s you do a lot before signing in. One of my friends sent me to another flash game site that requires sign in immediately. I didn’t play games there because I didn’t want to sign up until I saw if the games were any good there. My point is that an early roadblock of a login screen can stifle more than the search experience.

By: Northcode

Northcode — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 20:48:40 +0000

Is search rank the real measure of the power of a Flash application?

People chose Flash, even though it wasn’t index friendly, because it was more powerful and expressive than HTML, not because it got their page a better rank on google.

What if an online application requires you to login as stpe 1? Many Flash and HTML based applications alread do that. How does runtime indexing provide any extra value?

This will certainly open doors for content based sites that DON’T require logins, but that universe is shrinking as people try to monetize their projects.