Google indexing flash content

[Flapjack]

Hi

Would googles indexing of flash content count towards page content?

for example I have over 7000 flash files, with 1 unique flash file per page followed by a short 2 paragraph snippet, would google count the flash as content towards the overall page?

Because at the moment I've x-tagged the roberts with noindex, nofollow and no archive to prevent them from appearing in the search engines. I'm just wondering if the google bot visits and accesses the flash file it'll get the x-tag noindex, nofollow and then stop processing.

I think this may be why the panda update also had an effect.

thanks

[SteveOllington]

I haven't seen or heard anything about Panda making any changes to how Flash is crawled or indexed. It would count towards page content though yeah, just not in the sense of that page content in a normal way. Videos, images, everything counts as content in some way or another... it just doesn't have a lot to go on for what that content is about.