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Jeez what a name for the concept. I guess you’d just call it “human search engine” or “low tech search”... or even “crowdsourced search”...
by codeisawesome 7y ago
Jeez 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.