[thelist] The old Google indexing issue

[Joshua Olson]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Chris Hayes
> Sent: Friday, April 01, 2005 11:32 AM
> 
> I have a transitional website, it is just that.  The site 
> design was XHTML transitional but there is dynamic content 
> from an ActiveX HTML editor... which AFAIK won't even 
> validate as HTML RUBBISH. 
> ( that's TRASH for our friends over the pond).

> My question:  Does anybody know for sure (no guessing :) if 
> this failure to validate is enough to terminate a Google index?

Chris,

The first logical question would be: "Does Google concern itself with XHTML
compliance?"  

What gave you the impression that it parsed the HTML in the document for any
other purposes than the find the content within the page?

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Joshua Olson
Web Application Engineer
WAE Tech Inc.
http://www.waetech.com/service_areas/
706.210.0168