i.justrealized

Flash developers would be pleased on this one - Google has now learnt to crawl the text within the Flash files.

Google learns to crawl Flash

Google has been developing a new algorithm for indexing textual content in Flash files of all kinds, from Flash menus, buttons and banners, to self-contained Flash websites. Recently, we’ve improved the performance of this Flash indexing algorithm by integrating Adobe’s Flash Player technology.

In the past, web designers faced challenges if they chose to develop a site in Flash because the content they included was not indexable by search engines. They needed to make extra effort to ensure that their content was also presented in another way that search engines could find.

Now that we’ve launched our Flash indexing algorithm, web designers can expect improved visibility of their published Flash content, and you can expect to see better search results and snippets. There’s more info on the Webmaster Central blog about the Searchable SWF integration. (Source: Google Blog)

This should have been done a long time ago. But it’s great news for ActionScript lovers. You text are not left out any more.

But! But!! But!!! Honestly, given a choice I much prefer see JavaScript if Flash is not really need. If you just want to create some rollovers or an image gallery, consider JavaScript. For one, it just works out-of-the-box. JavaScript libraries have cool effects that you can achieve with Flash too.

I use AVG Free on my Windows XP virtual machine. I installed 3 Windows XP the past 2 days and I am damn familiar with installing antivirus software AVG after a while. I always customize my installations and AVG forces me to install AVG Safe Search and there is no option to opt out. It’s unfortunate that AVG seem to be more and more reluctant to offer transparent software.

Yes, I use Firefox 3, but at least I should be able to uninstall a plugin that I don’t want right? Stopping malicious links should be browser’s job anyway.

On a side note, it is harder to find AVG Free these days as compare to a year ago. Kinda reminds me of Real Player back then where they keep putting their free player in the most obsure location. I rather go exploring new lands on Earth than find that bloody button.

Gridsoft appears to follow suit and hide the link of AVG Free. They offer AVG Internet Security for download but there it doesn’t tell you that you have to pay till you reach this checkout page. AVG Free is still no where to be found in the homepage it appears.

So where can you get AVG Free then?

http://free.grisoft.com/

Searching for kahwee online in Google.

You basically get Death as the first page in this blog. Kinda funny. Kinda sad too. Death is best Google can say about me.

Well, if you are bored like me, you’ll search for “i just realized” in Google and realizing that there are 6.5 millions results for that.

That’s a lot of people who just realized their stuff. Sad to say, i.justrealized.com is not within the top 100 results.

Technorati picked up some blog reactions from this blog and visitors are very slowly coming in. Around 2 visitors per day that is not me. It’s a good start alright!