English Dictionary

human-flesh search

名詞

Research at an Internet forum where questions may be posed for other people to answer.

日本語の意味

インターネット掲示板などのオンラインコミュニティで、質問や疑問を投稿し、他の利用者から情報を集めることで、特定の対象や状況に関する調査を行う行為

The journalist relied on a human-flesh search to uncover the anonymous source's online trail.

ジャーナリストは、匿名の情報提供者のオンライン上の足跡を突き止めるために、クラウドソーシングによるオンライン調査を利用した。

意味（1）

Research at an Internet forum where questions may be posed for other people to answer.

Mop had a forum called human-flesh search engine, where users could pose questions about entertainment trivia that other users would answer: a type of crowd-sourcing.

意味（2）

Vigilante justice where Internet users collaborate to find people and punish them by public exposure, harassment, or intimidation.

Human-flesh search engines — renrou sousuo yinqing — have become a Chinese phenomenon: they are a form of online vigilante justice in which Internet users hunt down and punish people who have attracted their wrath.

human-flesh searches （ plural ）