Bad-mouthing competitors has a way of coming back to splatter you.
"Serendipity" is a fancy word that means making a meaningful discovery by accident. The term has come into play quite a bit during recent years thanks to the Internet. As you've probably learned for yourself, search engines often take you to wondrous places that have little to do with what you're searching for. That's what happened to me when I was doing some research on the Internet and stumbled across some writings in psychology journals about a phenomenon that explains quite a bit of things.
People who pursue Ph.Ds in psychology call it "spontaneous trait transference." This salt-of-the-earth type prefers to use a metaphor referring to something all males know better than to do against the wind.