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Originally Posted by PornWorx
Google does not favor one over the other for friendly urls. They understand the fact that Joe The Plumber has no idea about Web technologies and that he shouldn't be listed behind a plumbing competitor even though he is far superior and people visit his site more and stay on site longer just because he didn't configure pretty urls in WordPress.
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This is simply wrong.
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all other factors are equal and the choice is between a page with a user/search friendly URL or one without then the one with the user/search friendly URL will be displayed.
Neil Patel from Search Engine Land has made several recommendations in his in depth articles about the benefits of search friendly URLs.
John Mueller has hinted that Google prefers search friendly URLs. Although what would he know, he only works at Google right ?
Mark Munroe, also writing for Search Engine Land has explained in depth why user friendly URLs will help ranking.
However people like you seem to ignore the battle hardened, experienced SEOs who all agree that search friendly URLs will help you.
There are also other technical considerations. With a non search friendly URL you are exposing the parameters to fetch the page as a GET request, which can lead to unforeseen issues should any mangling of the URL occur and then having unwanted URLs indexed.