Last year, Google began crawling and indexing Flash content, but now Google has announced that it can also index external resource loading. In other words, Google can index external content that loads within an SWF file, and associate it with that file, so that it will appear in search results.
For example, a site that loads something like this in Flash:
..might appear in a Google SERP like this:
This is new to Google's Flash-crawling abilities. On Google's Webmaster Central Blog, Software Engineer Janis Stipins
Webmasters who have SWF files on the web that don't want them or any of their external resources crawled, can take care of this with their robots.txt file.
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