The "Related" sidebar appears when you display an existing question in SQLA. It contains a list of titles for other questions that the underlying software believes are related to this one... in other words, it is a "Related Questions" list. I am going to get rid of the "Related" sidebar, unless I hear strong objections. Here are my reasons: (1) It's not a very useful list; personally, I have never used it, but... that's not the main reason... (2) I believe the existence of that list on each question page is causing Google to generate false hits... it finds some matching text in the "Related" list and thinks the containing question is a match. You can read more about this topic here: http://sqlanywhere-forum.sap.com/questions/535/why-does-google-return-hits-based-on-the-list-of-related-question-titles-but-n Dumping the "Related" list won't solve all of Google's problems, but waving a dead chicken over the keyboard has not accomplished anything. |
I just noticed the "Related" sidebar does not appear for this question... that's not my doing! It might be that the underlying software takes time to index new questions.
I won't miss it. For me the list shows topics that are as much relevant as the hits of the internal search I've tried. Not want I would want to see (in other words: crab). But you could try waving a dead rabbit over the keyboard (Easter is coming...)
My screen shows a "Related" sidebar, but maybe that's becaus I didn't have a dead chicken available.
I have looked at "Related" now and then (and sometimes wondered what makes those questions related:), so I would not call this feature absolutely useless. However, it's not critical to me, particularly if it is responsible for the suboptimal search results. - I would recommend to (temporarily?) disable/drop the list to see if that fixes the problem.
Still strange and unsatisfying that there are no comments to your SX question yet. - I hope it's not because of too much ranting against the "nannies"...
I don't think I'll miss it ;).
Me too. Drop it.
@Reimer: You still see it because I haven't dropped it yet :)