Google is now Crawling and Indexing Flash Content

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Google is now Crawling and Indexing Flash Content - It’s been confirmed!

Googlebot can now read flash content and links within it!

Historically, search engines have been unable to extract content, such as text and links, from Flash (SWF) files. Subsequently, much of the Flash-based content on the web has been unavailable in search results. This situation has been frustrating for web developers, who have tried to come up with workarounds to help get search engines to index and rank their Flash pages.

Previous warnings from google to keep flash out of websites, is now Void, however how successful this method of google’s is, is in itself unknown, however they are working with Adobe on this, and aparently Adobe is dishing out a “Unique” version of flash player for Search Engines.
Currently Google is the only Search Engine indexing Flash Content, which will no doubt give it nothing but more strength in the SEO World.  Yahoo has access to the Adobe “Player” for Search Engines, however has yet to impliment it!