Yet again, I had to deal with another email about Adobe's announcement that millions of swf files would start showing up in search results. The misconception on Adobe's part is that by providing the ability to Google and other search engines to search within a Flash file that magically swf content will show up in search results. I am sorry, but it won't do anything for search results until Google and other search providers start indexing JavaScript or at least allow the JavaScript in SwfObject.

While what Adobe is doing is great, it isn't going to matter at all in the end. Google on it's own blog says:

"So if your web page loads a Flash file via JavaScript, Google may not be aware of that Flash file, in which case it will not be indexed."

What does this mean? This means that 99% of all websites will never show up in Google. If a site isn't using JS to embed flash content, then the site isn't being built properly. So in essence swf files will be indexed, but it will be the junk swf apps of the net.