Adobe is providing optimized Adobe® Flash® Player technology to Google and Yahoo! Moving forward, RIA developers and rich Web content producers wonât need to amend existing and future content to make it searchable â" they can now be confident it can be found by users around the globe. The openly ...
We've received numerous requests to improve our indexing of Adobe Flash files. Today, Ron Adler and Janis Stipins-software engineers on our indexing team-will provide us with more in-depth information about our recent announcement that we've greatly improved our ability to index Flash . ...
We've developed an algorithm that explores Flash files in the same way that a person would, by clicking buttons, entering input, and so on. Our algorithm remembers all of the text that it encounters along the way, and that content is then available to be indexed. We can't tell you all of the proprietary details, but we can tell you that the algorithm's effectiveness was improved by utilizing Adobe's new Searchable SWF library.
For most people on the Web, if Google or Yahoo cannot find something, it doesn't exist. That has been one of the biggest drawbacks to creating a Website or application that displays itself as a Flash (SWF) file. ...
Huffington Post - Jul. 1 (Blog Post) - A new study by the National Snow and Ice Data Center and the National Center for Atmospheric Research has warned that the integrity of carbon and methane sequestering permafrost is threatened by the rapid retreat of Arctic Sea Ice.
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Los Angeles Times - By Jim Puzzanghera - Jul. 1 (Blog Post) - The long road to the White House travels straight through cyberspace this year, and Google has launched a site offering several unique maps to help you follow it. The Google Maps Elections Gallery highlights how people are using Web 2.0 tools to follow and analyze the campaign. The site showcases mash-ups of Google maps focused on the 2008 presidential campaign, providing an interesting way to visualize the race from the stratosphere all the way down to street level.
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New York Times - By John Noble Wilford - Jul. 1 (News Report) - Archaeologists have long fixed their sights on the grandeur that was ancient Egypt, the pyramids, temples and tombs. Few bothered to dig beneath and beyond the monumental stones for glimpses into the living and working spaces of ordinary Egyptians.
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Anthony Ha / VentureBeat:
New deal makes “invisible” Flash content visible to search — Adobe, Google and Yahoo are about to make it easier to build rich multimedia websites in the Flash file format (SWF) without sacrificing any “Google juice” (and, um, whatever the Yahoo equivalent is).
Today's Guardian features a special supplement on the most incredible scientific experiment ever - the Large Hadron Collider at Cern
And when I say temporary discount, *obviously* it's restricted to those who count Starbucks, Ben and Jerrys and ranch dressing as their greatest culinary masterpieces (and I say that with the highest level of envy, trust me).
June 30 is the day that Microsoft begins phasing out Windows XP by no longer providing copies of the operating system to PC makers and retailers for preloading on new machines. It's also a good day thanks to a recent New York Times opinion piece to start looking ahead to.
Following his recent departure from Electronic Arts after 11 years with the company, former EA Blueprint head Neil Young has announced the formation of Ngmoco, a new iPhone-focused studio that he tells Gamasutra plans to bring 'entrepreneurial focus' to mobile game development.
Latest Neil McAllister on Software Posts: That was fast! We're only one day into the post-Bill Gates era, and already Microsoft is taking steps to improve interoperability between its Office suite of productivity applications...
The auction site could face millions in extra costs to track down counterfeit goods if a French court's LVMH decision stands Doing business may get a lot harder for eBay . A Parisian court has ordered the e-commerce giant to...
Miguel Helft / Bits:
Google and the Anti-Obama Bloggers — Added comment from one of the bloggers who was shut down by Google.) — Did Google use its network of online services to silence critics of Barack Obama? That was the question buzzing on a corner of the blogosphere over the last few days …
In response to a purported sceenshot showing PS2 game downloads for PlayStation 3, Sony says the image "must have been mocked up by an excited consumer."
Record oil prices are already
causing problems for airlines, vehicle manufacturers and major delivery firms,
and analysts say the pain is unlikely to ease any time soon. Sales of its sport utility vehicles have
fallen as oil prices have streaked higher in the past year. This live chat feature that ...
Oil slipped from a record high above $143 a barrel on Monday as weak U.S. demand countered mounting tensions between OPEC nation Iran and Israel.
Apple has released Mac OS X 10.5.4 via the Mac OS X Software Update:The 10.5.4 Update is recommended for all users running Mac OS X Leopard and includes general operating system fixes that enhance the stability, compatibility and sec.
The computer maker discusses options for virtualizing corporate data centers.
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30 Jun 2008