HTML 5 content 'not yet searchable'

8th June 2009

Developers looking into using HTML 5 to develop rich web content and applications may need to leave pages built with standard HTML intact to ensure search engines can still find their websites.

This is according to Shannon Clark of VentureBeat, who spoke to Google vice-president of engineering Vic Gundotra at the recent I/O event and was told that Google is still looking into how to index web application content.

Furthermore, the search engine is more focused on improving the user experience and building richer applications in any case, Mr Gundotra said.

"It is likely that content inside of these richer elements, such as HTML 5's canvas tags, or an embedded WebElement application, will not be indexed by Google or accessible by Google services such as AdSense," Ms Clark commented.

She went on to advise developers to ensure core website content is in clean, standard HTML to make it easy to find by search engines.

Google unveiled its new Google Wave product, which was built with HTML 5, at the I/O event last month.

The service aims to combine email and instant messaging by letting users communicate with each other and share documents and files in real-time.

 

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