Is excessive whitespace in the HTML source bad?

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On February 26, 2009, Google software engineer Matt Cutts collected questions on Google Moderator and answered many of them on video.

Funkman asked:

"Excessive white space" in the HTML source is bad. Fact, myth, or somewhere in between?



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