I read somewhere that Google and others are to start searching meta keywords ‘within’ Flash animations. Is this true?

The reason is that I want to create a website using an interactive city map on the homepage, close to the top. I know that Google will only cache the first few hundred KB of content, so my concern is getting keywords into the top of the page without pushing the interactive map down too far.

Rather than guess, I asked an expert about this, who answered on condition of anonymity. So, my “expert source says”:

“Yes, Google can parse through the text contained within a .swf file and present that information in a Google search. But due to the fact that an entire website can be contained in a single .swf file, whereas a traditional HTML site may consist of hundreds of individual pages, the weightings and rankings given to certain pages may not be…

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