Is my memory failing me or was there indeed the time when google.com had no DOCTYPE? That makes perfect sense if you are not going to adhere to any standards.

Is my memory failing me or was there indeed the time when google.com had no DOCTYPE? That makes perfect sense if you are not going to adhere to any standards. I suppose the reason they have a doctype now is to force browsers into standards compliant rendering mode (it would be quirks otherwise). What baffles me why did they choose HTML5 doctype if they don't care about actually adhering to the spec. They can go with <!DOCTYPE google> and it will work just fine (any unknown doctype triggers standards compliant mode in browsers) without false claim of being compliant with some actual standard.