For anyone with Flash on their website, or those of us endlessly putting off the day of launching our Flash sites, last week there was an interesting post on Google's webmaster blog. The title Flash indexing with external resource loading may not be too catchy, but the post quickly gets to the point :

We just added external resource loading to our Flash indexing capabilities. This means that when a SWF file loads content from some other file - whether it's text, HTML, XML, another SWF, etc. - we can index this external content too, and associate it with the parent SWF file and any documents that embed it.

On the horizon for a while,this is enabled by default, but if you don't want it you can block it with robots.txt. What's more Google don't mention any caveats such as the version of Flash - on the contrary, they say it'll work regardless of Actionscript version.

Via SlideShowPro.