RANDOM correlations continue their spread across the World Wide Web – particularly through helpful suggestions of “related items”. Feedback has so far concentrated on the imaginative offerings to book-seekers on Amazon.com – most recently on 1 May. Now the blight is spreading across online forums.
Consider the plight of those seeking help on the construction of spreadsheets at allexperts.com. In the “Related articles” on the page on creating a warning message in Excel (at bit.ly/warningmessage) readers are directed to seek further advice on how to “Make Phyllo Sheets with a Pasta Machine”.
The advice looks sound, but has little…
