It seems that way. As someone who develops a crawler that currently parses Flash files to find child files and links to external content I was excited when I fi

It seems that way. As someone who develops a crawler that currently parses Flash files to find child files and links to external content I was excited when I first read that Adobe had made a special version of the Flash player that could be used by bots. I'm sure theirs has many more features than mine. That quickly turned to disappointment when I found out this is only for Google and Yahoo. This is totally anti-competetive. I wonder how Microsoft will react. In any case, unless they are willing to make this available for everyone my opinion of Flash and Adobe is pretty much the same as it was yesterday. [edit] It's probably worth noting that I'm making the big assumption that this isn't something that was solicited by Google and Yahoo. Afterall, Flash has never been indexed before and it never seemed to bother them. It seems to be much more a problem for Adobe since the major search engines are pretty much in a position where they can tell content providers to F- off if they've developed their whole site in something like Flash. It's possible Google and Yahoo chose to pay for this or work out some kind of agreement and in that case there's nothing to gripe about.