Do keywords in a URL matter? – YES!

Below is an excerpt from an article posted at http://gadgetopia.com/post/5768.

Before we started our test, we searched for rkpatjfg in Google, MSN beta, Yahoo!, Ask Jeeves, Lycos, Teoma, WiseNut, Exalead (AOL.fr) and Voila. There were no results on these search engines.

Results […] Google, MSN (beta), Yahoo! and Exalead take into account the words in the URL. […] The other search engines (Ask Jeeves, Lycos, Teoma, WiseNut and Voila) have not yet crawled our webpages