Should I strip file extensions from my URLs?

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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.

J. from London asked:

Does stripping file extensions from URLs
(site.com/folder/page.html versus site.com/folder/page) have demonstrable benefit in the SERPs?



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