rogerd - 12:47 pm on Apr 2, 2002 (gmt 0)

I, too, am a fan of deep-linking - that's what the web is all about. If I want to provide visitors to my web site with an answer to a technical question, a link to microsoft.com won't do them any good at all - they need a link to the specific tech note, press release, etc. that addresses their need.

For the sites that I work on, I try to be sure that no matter where someone lands on the site, they can orient themselves and find other relevant content. Deep links from other web sites aside, Google and a few other SEs are the masters of deep linking & delivering users to the content they are searching for. (As an off-topic note, I'm bugged by search results that heavily weight the home page - whether or not that specific page has the content I searched for...)