The final battle against Flash content will come to an end this year, when Google will finally stop indexing content in this format.
During 2020, the world will have to deposit the Adobe Flash multimedia platform, Google will ignore Flash content this year, and Google Search will stop indexing standalone SWF files.
Two years ago, many Internet companies, including Adobe itself, decided to kill Flash in 2020. Its absolute incompatibility with the mobile world, and the security problems involved, are crucial reasons for this action.
In recent years, we have already seen how Flash support has decreased with increased HTML5 support, and now major browsers, such as Chrome, block all Flash content by default, which is a huge blow for fans of this technology.
Initially, it was difficult for Flash sites to appear in search engine results because crawlers require text-based content, but in 2008 Google partnered with Adobe to develop an alternative solution to make it easier for Flash-based websites to appear without problems. Now less than 5% of websites still use Flash content, compared to about 30% in 2011, but there are still many millions of sites whose content will not be indexed within the next two months.
You can see Google's official announcement in this article.
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