After Chrome partially supported Flash, the company decided to stop indexing pages with Flash content on the web with Google Search, thus making them much harder to find.
Adobe's timetable for ending Flash support is just one year. So Google has decided to reduce the viewing of Flash content in Chrome since December of 2020.
In one information on webmasters blog, Google says it will stop supporting Flash "later this year". Google Search will "ignore" Flash content on web pages. It will also stop indexing standalone SWF (Shockwave Flash) files.
"Most users and websites will not see any of this change," said Dong-Hwi Lee, Google's engineering manager.
Adobe launched Flash in 1996, a year before Google did. In accordance with Search Engine Land, Google began indexing Flash files in 2008, prompting developers and designers to create animations, games and other.
Of course now with the stop indexing of web pages with Flash content by Google Search, it gives an additional incentive to administrators to stop using Flash and use HTML5 technologies that support all modern programs tours.
Google disables Flash in Chrome by default from its release Chrome 76 last July. Microsoft also stops supporting Flash in the Edge browser that uses Chromium. Mozilla also turned it off by default Flash on Firefox 69 last September.