Sometimes, sometimes not. You can often compress a lot of &parameter=value into a simple /value/ rewrite. This - by most accounts - makes it more SEO friend

Sometimes, sometimes not. You can often compress a lot of &parameter=value into a simple /value/ rewrite. This - by most accounts - makes it more SEO friendly. Granted, putting full sentences that match an article title is never necessary, but there are a lot of SEO tricks that can make a url not only "nicer" looking but also shorter.