I just ran the w3c validator to crawl google’s homepage. I was surprised to find 66 errors. It makes me wonder how important this valid XHTML stuff really is. I’ve found a lot of controversy on the issue. And I’m not really sure of the answer. All I know is that Google seems not to care about it’s own HTML. Interestingly, 456 Berea Street has a HTML valid version of Google’s homepage. Apparently, the valid HTML is 1402 bytes smaller than Google’s current invalid homepage. That’s so much bandwidth. Ouch! You’d think Google would do something about that.

good articles about google and Valid HTML:
Hobo found that Google loves valid HTML

Mark Daoust found that Google loves invalid HTML.