incrediBILL - 8:41 pm on Mar 4, 2012 (gmt 0)

Since I am not a programmer

Don't worry, HTML isn't programming, it's text markup.

Glorified 21st century high-tech typesetting to be exact :)

However, if Google doesn't care if their own code validates I would question whether the search engine cares that much about 100% valid code.

Personally, I don't feel bad if my page validates but the little piece I added from the big mega-billion dollar company doesn't validate.

I'd point that out to a client and show them you simply do better work than Google does ;)