Google can read flash and follow links in flash, has been able to for at least 2 years now. They are currently working on reading text in images as well.

Anyways, about the click thing, Microsoft didn't want to put that in there. They got into some stupid lawsuit about the way they index their active X content so the person who redid it was a (not very smart) and didn't see the fact that people didn't want to click EVERYTHING before they used it.

I wonder if he is the guy who designed Vista? LOL (ALLOW?)