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Another Reason to use Flash Instead of Silverlight

Flash content is finally searchable by two of the biggest online search engines on the internet, Google and Yahoo.

One of the biggest disadvantage of using Flash content for your dynamic content is simply because it is not searchable, and now with Adobe's new optimized Adobe Flash Player helping both Google and Yahoo to search and index Flash content, this means that there is no excuse left NOT TO USE FLASH on your web sites.

Note that Microsoft Live Search was not included in this partnership.

Now, for those enthusiastic about writing Silverlight content on the web, might I ask, what is Microsoft going to do about this? Both in its Live Search, making it competitive with Google and Yahoo to search Flash content, and also making Silverlight content searchable too. This is the biggest advantage Adobe Flash has over Silverlight now, and if Microsoft doesn't do anything about it, the web will not be convinced about Silverlight, regardless of the amount of bribing promoting they can and will do.

Adobe, we love you and thank you.

To those Silverlight enthusiasts, please get your facts right about Adobe Flash before even bashing Adobe Flash technology. You know who you are.

Comments

  • BV July 6, 2008 11:32 AM

    Good to see this post on what appears to be an MS centric blog. Several years ago I used Flash/actionscript to develop simulation tools and gave me access to good animation and a decent scripting/programming language. Microsoft didn't have anything close to Flash. Today I need the same functionality, having stepped away from development for a while. I'm looking at WPF and Silverlight, but find it a confusing mess. To me the greatest advantage these bring are the rich .NET API, and specifically the ability to call on ADO.NET and the OS. However, MS has little focus and attempting to target too many markets at once. The technology is great and promissing but I keep getting back to Flash for its tightly focused API and well-defined, intuitive object-model.

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