Comments on: Another Flex search engine — and you can put it on your personalized Google home page

By: Robert Hernreich

Robert Hernreich — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 15:44:50 +0000

Daniel brings up a good point. Will the flex 2 site be searchable by Google? If yes then will the results be ignored due to duplicate content issues?
Robert Hernreich

By: Daniel Sanderson

Daniel Sanderson — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 06:03:02 +0000

Does anyone know how to make my simple flex 2 site searchable by Google. Is this possible??

Thanks,

Daniel

By: Better Search Engine Rank

Better Search Engine Rank — Tue, 04 Dec 2007 09:42:30 +0000

Mike, thanks for sharing the information on ‘flex’. I too am having a crack at building a more interactive search engine, and your post has certainly pointed me in the right direction.

Many thanks once again.

By: Chris

Chris — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 04:05:19 +0000

Just thought i’d drop a comment to let you know that i really like the custom search and how you used it. It’s quite suprising we havent seen more usage of the google custom search in more advanced ways. anyways from one flex user to another thanks

By: Steve Dorrington

Steve Dorrington — Tue, 21 Aug 2007 14:07:56 +0000

Interesting stuff. Thanks for the link to flex.org. I’ve been wanting to build a more responsive search engine and the components should work fine.

By: mike

mike — Wed, 06 Dec 2006 15:38:54 +0000

Hi Niall, I personally don't know a lot about that subject, but it was discussed recently on the flexcoders list: start here, and then be sure to read all the replies (click the links at the bottom of the page, and the read articles that are linked to from there). If you have more questions, the flexcoders list has a lot of people who can probably help.

By: Niall

Niall — Wed, 06 Dec 2006 15:17:47 +0000

Flash websites require HTML optimization so they can be identified by search engines such as Google on the Internet.

Q. As part of a Rich Internet Application, does Flex 2 optimise Flash-generated content, so the website(s) can be identified by search engines? If not, is there any RIA software that can be used with Flex 2 to optimize Flash content?

can anyone help me with an answer to this

By: Got RIA? » Blog Archive » Flex Docs / Tuts Search Tools

Got RIA? » Blog Archive » Flex Docs / Tuts Search Tools — Thu, 30 Nov 2006 18:58:25 +0000

[...] Personalized Google Homepage Flex Search Widget from Mike Morearty’s blog post [...]

By: Joshua Cyr

Joshua Cyr — Wed, 29 Nov 2006 15:15:12 +0000

The CSE’s work pretty well. They will only show results of pages indexed by google normally though. Another thing you can do is create refinements. Think of a refinement as a category. You can then apply those refinements to each of the sites you add to your CSE so people can filter the results. For example have a refine ment list as corporate, blog, Open Source, Community Site, etc.

I ended up doing that for my coldfusion CSE and it worked pretty well ( I think ). You can also have people volunteer to help maintain. I found that while I had several volunteer, they never logged in again. And half of them never left their name or any identifying information. Further you can’t see what sites they are adding, so it is kind of risky.

http://www.cfhunt.com is the CF CSE I built in case your interested.

By: mike

mike — Tue, 28 Nov 2006 19:34:55 +0000

Perfect, James — thank you! I’ve now added flexcoders and flexcomponents to the search.