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For anyone else like me who is unfamiliar with the concept of human flesh search: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_flesh_search_engine https://en.wikipedia.o
by ozzmotik 7y ago
For anyone else like me who is unfamiliar with the concept of human flesh search: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_flesh_search_engine https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_flesh_search_engine
Learned something new and interesting today!
- codeisawesome 7y agoJeez what a name for the concept. I guess you’d just call it “human search engine” or “low tech search”... or even “crowdsourced search”...
- uranusjr 7y agoIt’s more of an unfortunate misinterpretation IMO. The translation is quite literal, but does not imply the same concept in Chinese as in English. The 人肉 part originally means human as in “the human calculator” or similar expressions. A “human search engine” (or more colloquially here in Taiwan, a human Google) is someone super good at finding information most can’t, and that expression is then turned into the verb.