Google's search engine can now index external content that a Flash file loads, such as text, HTML, XML or Flash content itself, the company said Friday.

The Google search engine will also tie the indexed Flash file to this externally loaded content and the documents from where it comes, Google said.

"This new capability improves search quality by allowing relevant content contained in external resources to appear in response to users' queries," Google software engineer Janis Stipins in an official blog.

Friday's announcement is the latest in Google's multiyear effort to improve its indexing of Flash files and specifically builds on the in June of last year that Google had developed a new algorithm for indexing textual content in Flash files.

At the time, Adobe also it was providing optimized Flash Player technology to Google and Yahoo to help with their ongoing efforts to better index Flash files.