In July, we reported that Google is now able to better crawl and index content within Flash files. Since then, time has gone on but most SEOs continue to recommend that you stay away from Flash when building a search engine friendly site.

A new Google Groups thread takes a new look at how Google handles Flash content. In the thread Beu was able to bring back a former Googler, Bergy, to respond to some of these questions.

So if you are interested in getting into the details of how Google may index Flash content, check out the Google Groups thread.

Bergy’s general recommendation is still to avoid using Flash when possible:

Forum discussion at Google Groups.