Does the position of keywords in the URL affect ranking?

[postlink]https://mattcuttsvideos.blogspot.com/2009/02/does-position-of-keywords-in-url-affect.html[/postlink]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gRzMhlFZz9Iendofvid
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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.

Adeel from Manchester, UK asked:

Does the position of keywords in the URL have a significant impact:
example.com/keyword/London is better than example.com/London/keyword?

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