On the first day of this month, we reported that Google and Yahoo were to begin indexing Flash files. According to the pertinent Google Webmaster Central blog post, Google is able to crawl the contextual elements in these blog posts. The post itself has been updated with Google mentioning that it rolled out even more features:

Those using SWFObject should appreciate this new functionality. But there’s one concern expressed by tedster. Hopefully, the spiders won’t ignore HTML content on those pages that also utilize SWFObject.

Forum discussion continues at WebmasterWorld.