Western Human Flesh Search Chases Wrong Guy

Wired posted a story yesterday about how a small riot following the World Series win for the San Francisco Giants sparked what, in China, would be known as a 'human flesh search' for one of the rioters. However, the collaborative detective work led to the wrong guy due to the fact he made a poorly calculated joke on Facebook. “Human Flesh Search Engine” is often considered to be a phenomenon which only happens in Asia. The phrase is an rough translation of “ren'rou sou'suo,” which means “human-assisted search engine .” Essentially, it is a search online where, instead of relying on relevance or an algorithm, users united by a common cause scour the internet in an investigation to find a particular thing. More often than not, for whatever reason, the search is for specific people. Thus the phrase Human Flesh Search Engine probably stuck also because of it's resonance with t...

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