Validation

I was trying to validate an html page using w3c validator. I could not!

The reason was that the page contains lots of links to Google searches
etc. e.g.
<a
href="http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&source=hp&ie=ISO-8859-1&q=omeprazole+causes+bile+reflux&btnG=Google+Search">

The validator complains about the & in there - it wants &amp; but the link
with that in won't work.

So is this a fault in the validator - or something which should be
accomodated in NetSurf?

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Richard Torrens.
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