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[News] [SOT] The Closed Web and Its Bad Impact

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Is the Web still the Web?

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| For developers of RIAs (rich Internet applications), Adobe's announcement 
| that Google and Yahoo will soon be able to index text within Flash movies 
| should come as welcome news. Until now, Flash files have been black boxes; 
| with these binary files, search indexers could no more extract textual 
| information from them than from JPEGs or PNGs.    
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| This first stab at Flash search still sounds somewhat primitive, but it 
| raises an issue of importance to all Internet application developers. Given 
| the growing number of data types and file formats being transmitted over HTTP 
| and the increasing complexity of the applications that make use of them, is 
| today's Web really still the Web? Or is it morphing into something else? How 
| can we ensure that today's Web apps offer enough capabilities and flexibility  
| to make Web 2.0 worthy of its name?      
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http://weblog.infoworld.com/fatalexception/archives/2008/07/is_the_web_stil.html


Days ago:

Google Is Evil in a Flash

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| What that means in practice is that one of the major downsides of using
| Flash – its invisibility to search engines like Google - has partly
| disappeared. That, in turn, is likely to encourage more Web designers to
| incorporate it into their sites – making the experience more like television
| than the Internet. Flash not only takes the control away from the visitor, it
| renders its content opaque in terms of links.
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http://www.computerworlduk.com/toolbox/open-source/blogs/index.cfm?blogid=14&entryid=986

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