Flash files to be indexed by Google. Uh, yay?

Scoble thinks this is good. Wrong. [Link]

Don’t miss this news. It’s significant because Google’s search engine can decide the marketplace winner between Adobe’s Flash and Microsoft’s Silverlight. You think Google (or Yahoo, for that matter) is going to be very motivated to index Silverlight content? Rrrriiiiigggghhhhttttt.

Also notice which search engine isn’t playing the Adobe game: Microsoft’s.

Great, more bad interfaces done in Flash with no way to really get page links. At least in the past, the fact that Flash was ghettoized by the search engines slowed the Flashification down to a reasonable limit.

Now that it will be searchable, every idiot who doesn't understand the net will want to revolutionize user interfaces by using controls that don't follow convention. One of the selling points to me for the iPhone is the lack of Flash. I turn Flash off in FireFox with FlashBlock. I can still see the stuff I want to, but can ignore the ads that are all screaming "Look at me!" over and over again and view it on my terms. This is the modern equivalent of the Blink tag.

Flash is aceptable in small doses, like Botox. With the right amount, you get a plastic, artificial appearance; with too much, you are poisoned.

This almost makes me want to start using Lynx.