>>>Actually, that was bad behavior - don't you hate it when you get a link to search results on any site which has its own search, and when you navigate to it, there's nothing, you have to type all of it from scratch, learn how search works there etc.
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>A deep link is metadata rather than a url that can be snafu'ed in a website update (which is another rarely mentioned downside.) The metadata can be independent of platform and does not need a browser, allowing apps to communicate more directly.

I hate those reorganizations. My proverb for the web is that you can easily find anything on it, except twice.