Today, Adobe posted some pretty important news to the Flash/Flex community: they are currently working with Google and Yahoo! Search to improve the way .swf files on the web are searched and indexed by the search engines.

It seems that by now Google already has made some important changes to its search methods and its crawlers can now better search and index the contents of a .swf file. Also, Yahoo! is not far behind. According to Adobe, the crawlers will actually run the contents of a .swf file and get any text and links they find. At least for beginning. Later on, they will help the search engines find and index more content from the .swf files.

The best part is that developers do not need to modify their Flash/Flex contents to be better indexed by the search engines, the crawlers are able to work with any version of the .swf files on the Internet. In this case it’s possible that after more and more Flash/Flex content being indexed by the search engines, the ranks of Flash/Flex web pages will increase enough in relatively short period of time.

This is indeed great news and hopefully we’ll see the results in a short time.