The three major search engines within their webmaster guidelines stress the importance of correct html. A test of the top four listed sites in each engine produced the following results.
HTML Tidy was used to check the correctness of each search result. The settings for Tidy were:
This was a very generic and very limited test. It appears that the html is basically correct; although, many warnings were prevalent. Only one result contained html errors.
In fairness to the search engines, they stress correct html; not, perfect html. I will leave you, the reader to draw your own conclusion.
This page was put through the exact same test for correct html.
Created on ... August 10, 2006
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