Yahoo & Google learning to search for Flash-based content

Finally, Adobe, Google and Yahoo are working to enable search for Flash-based content. Me thinks Adobe is a bit slow in optimizing their Flash player technology.

One reason why most sites refrain from using Flash exclusively is because of its file size overhead. The other reason is SEO - it’s impossible to crawl Flash content. Read more »

Yahoo says Google is a malware

google-malware1.gifApparently, Yahoo’s partnership with Mcafee has some minor glitch. Yahoo Search tags a Google result as malware. Curiously, searching for “google” doesn’t display this warning. Searching for “altavista” does.

Do you think this is an honest mistake, a prank or a joke? Whatever it is, my guess is Google is not laughing.

Update: Yahoo already fixed the glitch concerning Google.  However, one site, whose not as big as Google, is also affected by this anomaly.  The site owner claims they are not spammers as tagged by Yahoo Search.  E-mail correspondence with Yahoo, so far, isn’t doing very well, according to the site owner.  Ouch!