importance of keyworld in URL

[pawel]

I was recently examining the Google Research Project (http://www.searchengineworld.com/google/) and got quite puzzled with their results on keywords in URLs. According to them, the issues of having a searched keyword in your site's URL is "of negligible value", on the other hand what I get searching Google seems quite the opposite. www.<searched_word>.com will in 95% cases popup in the very first rank, provided there is such a domain.
What is your experience and advice on this?
Would you suggest registering an .org instead of .com domain? (see [searchengineworld.com...] - says google favours .org's and .edus over .com's)
Pawel

[sun818]

Hi pawel, if you search WW, I'm sure you'll run across many discussions surrounding your question. Here's one discussion I found using the search term keyword url:

Keyword(s) in domain name: Good? or Indifferent? [webmasterworld.com]

[HitProf]

Hi pawel,

That research project may need some updating. Google regularly changes it's algo and in the most recent Dominic update the url seems to have become less relevant.

[pawel]

Thanks,
just typed "dominic" and got like a 20-page thread, so I guess I was sort of behind not having heard about it yet;)