A deep link is a link to a page on a Web site which is not it’s homepage. So for example linking to the about me site on my patrice.ch site would be a deep link. So how do you call a link to a section on a page? A deep deep link?
That’s what Yahoo! search now does for Wikipedia.
Search for Switzerland and you’ll get this:
This result directly links to the subsections “History”, “Politics” and “Direct democracy” of the Switzerland article. Now don’t ask me what’s the algorithm for selecting the subsections, but it’s a pretty cool feature.
This is similar to the Google feature where Google will sometimes provide deep links into the site. I never use Google, so the only example I know is when you search for Stanford:
Those links Admission, etc. link to other pages on the Stanford Web sites. That’s an intelligent idea as well. Though again, I have no idea what algorithm this links are based on.
(Via Yahoo! search blog and they get bonus points for using coffee as the example.)