le_gber - 9:13 am on Feb 7, 2007 (gmt 0)

It must be some kind of corporate decision to save on bandwidth.

Looking at it from the figures you gave, Google's page is almost 17 times 'lighter' than MSN's. This could mean big money if they were to make it valide code.

Although looking at their code a bit, they use font tags, inline css, and tables ... which is bad, bad, bad practice Big G!

As for the challenge, yes I am always up to get the web cleaner. What do we do? Start a website about getting them to validate. Something like, www.validgoogle.com or www.googleisnotvalid.com?

we might have some trouble with the trademark though