Official Google answers to common SEO questions

Question:

What impact does "page bloat" have on Google rankings? Most of the winners in SEO seem to have very simple pages (very few images, HTML-only-design) sometimes to the detriment of the user in a poorly designed page.

Google's Matt Cutts answers:

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Answered: 16 June 2009. Views: 1,247.

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