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To index dynamically generated pages in a foolproof way, the server or the page generating software should be used to rewrite the URL to a static form. For more information, see excellent article at http://www.searchtools.com/robots/goodurls.html (with refs).
Indexing graphics and Flash will hinge on supplying information in the alt tag (which search engines index) and/or using the longdesc tag or a D-link, which will be followed by some search engines - if you follow accessibility guidelines then the information should be available for search engines. For more info see:
There is a multiplicity of other filetypes that may have metadata that can be indexed by some search engines, amongst these are images, audio (including mp3) and video. To find out more see http://www.searchtools.com/info/multimedia-search.html.
See reference on What search engines can find - http://www.teacherlibrarian.com/pages/infotech30_5.html
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