Looks like Google and Yahoo are just now finding out what I’ve been doing with Troy over the last 6 months and they’re now talking about indexing Flash (SWF) content in their search results. Troy and I are doing this on our website http://mediawombat.com and have been crawling the web for about 6 months now pulling in and extracting content. Weird that techstars denied us funding, but now Google and Yahoo are announcing that they’re interested in it? :)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/01/AR2008070100176.html
What the people at ycombinator think: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=233166 Some “market validation” talk being thrown around about our idea.
Our new home at http://altsearchengines.com is here: http://altsearchengines.com/2008/07/02/media-wombat-flash-search-engine/
- Steve
