Interesting to hear about flash and google, when I was a web designer many years ago for a company, sales used to push it as it was innovative, even though it had serious seo implications. As you mentioned anyone still utilising a flash site are literally going to disappear overnight. Overall it did its job and allowed games etc, bit like Kinect failed overall for gaming yet is utilised in finding earthquake victims etc. ps i loved kinect and flash games at munch time.