Flash is a wonderful tool for creating richly interactive web pages, google does have the ability to extract the text from a Flash Movie and Index that so it may be beneficial not to hide the xml data that you may be using to load in the text to the Flash file itself.So should we put more attention on flash?
There's an SEO technique that caters to flash site too, you know.
Well, google does not hate flash websites... Their spiders just find it hard to crawl other content media like videos and images flash websites.
Spiders can crawl textual content in SWF files of all kinds. This includes Flash "gadgets" such as buttons or menus, self-contained Flash websites, and everything in between.
Although search engines are still in their infancy to read and understand flash. Furthermore, the amount of website in Flash are miniscule... so... neither they need to worry about crawling flash content.
Its better that you make a text based website... than Flash based