May 30, 2009

Problems in Indexing Web Content

Google I/O: New Advances In The Searchability of JavaScript and Flash, But Is It Enough?, by Vanessa Fox, Search Engine Land (May 29)

How searchable are the new "cloud" applications and web sites developed with HTML 5 and AJAX? Google can do some indexing of Flash, but it still has problems with it and Javascript. There are a host of issues described in this article on dealing with navigation at websites coded in javascript.

One thing - the search engines are now very good at interpreting dynamic URLs.

Posted by Gwen at May 30, 2009 02:26 PM