Search Engines, SEO & Spry

Being somewhat new to the Spry framework, I am curious how
Spry will work with search engines and SEO.
I noticed Adobe's Periodic Table Spry example (very cool,
btw!) at
http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/spry/demos/periodic_table/periodic_table.htm
and decided to Google "periodic table spry" for the result. This is
what appears":
Spry Periodic Table
Element Types: {Element_Type}. Periods (rows): {Period}.
Groups (columns): {Group}. Show All. {No} {Group}. {Symbol}.
{Atomicweight}. {No} {Group}. {Symbol} ...
labs.adobe.com/technologies/spry/demos/periodic_table/periodic_table.htm
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It looks as if Google reads the Spry code and not the full
content of the page, and as such, may not work well with SEO and
search engine page rank, let alone presenting an unreadable content
blurb to the search user in the Google result.
Does anyone have any intimate experience with this topic?
Thanks in advance!

Hi Geronimosan,
The only way to make sure that your pages are "indexable" by
search engines is to use the progressive enhancement technique. You
can read more about how to use Spry in an progressive enhancement
manner on our Best Practices page:
http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/spry/articles/best_practices/index.html
--== Kin ==--

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