Oct 29, 2019 23:00:00

It turns out that Flash content will be ignored by Google search within 2019

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Adobe Flash is a standard for handling rich content such as music and movies, and it once flourished on the Internet. However, in recent years, vulnerabilities in Flash Player have been discovered , and industry companies are accelerating their efforts to eliminate Flash. Adobe, the developer, is also planning to end development and distribution of Flash Player at the end of 2020. It turned out that content containing Flash will not be indexed in Google search and will be ignored in search within 2019.

Official Google Webmaster Central Blog [EN]: Goodbye, Flash
https://webmasters.googleblog.com/2019/10/goodbye-flash.html

Google Search to stop indexing Flash content in late 2019 | VentureBeat
https://venturebeat.com/2019/10/28/google-search-to-stop-indexing-flash-content-in-late-2019/

Microsoft , Mozilla , Google, etc., who develop web browsers, are moving ahead with the elimination of Flash, and gradually people are no longer using Flash. The percentage of users who play Flash content in Google Chrome a day has fallen to just 8% in early 2018, although approximately 80% existed in mid-2014.

Google Chrome succeeded in drastically reducing the Flash usage rate-GIGAZINE

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In addition, Google announced that Flash content will be ignored by Google search within 2019. Google Search has read text in SWF files on web pages that contain Flash content, registers them in the index, and reflects them in search results. Since index registration had to be performed on a text basis, it was difficult to reflect Flash content in Google search results. However, in 2008, Google partnered with Adobe to develop this mechanism.

However, by the end of 2019 Google search will no longer support Flash content, Google engineer Dong-Hwi Lee announced on the official blog. Because Flash content will not be indexed for Google search, the Flash content in the web page will not be reflected in the search results.

Lee gave an example of '500 million Flash plug-ins were installed in the second half of 2013 alone' and said that Flash content has stimulated many creators and created content on the web . On the other hand, most users and websites do not use Flash at the time of article creation, and this change will not have a big impact on people. With the abolition of Flash, support for HTML5 , a new web standard, is advancing, and Lee stated that HTML5 and others will take over the legacy of Flash.

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Although the departure from Flash is proceeding smoothly, Flash content playback itself is not impossible at the time of article creation. It is “Chrome 87” scheduled to be released in December 2020 that Flash will be completely abolished from Chrome.