Is HTML validation necessary for ranking?

Hi Matt, in a previous video you stated that validation of HTML wasn’t really important for ranking/SEO. This confuses me, would Google really want to send it’s users to websites which would be broken for a lot of them? Jimmy “@Feldon” Wirsborg, Stockholm, Sweden Russian subtitles provided by Mike Shakin. Note: the grammatical error was fixed in the video, but the question as submitted can be seen above. Have a question? Ask it in our Webmaster Help Forum: www.google.com Want your question to be answered on a video like this? Follow us on Twitter and look for an announcement when we take new questions: twitter.com More videos: www.youtube.com Webmaster Central Blog: googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com Webmaster Central: www.google.com