And all this in the name of the People. @no_Z_turn churned out a brilliant tweet which made us laugh pretty hard:

After People.com.cn came out with People’s Search…

1. Xinhua Web [Ed: Official news agency] will soon debut Person Search [Ed: ie, a search on your person, much like security check, but on the Web, supposedly...]

2. Chinese Police Web will soon debut Hostage Search

3. Kaixin (001) will soon debut Renzha Search [Ed: Renzha, 人渣 in characters, is a pretty nasty term — to be used only on your enemies, dead and/or alive]

4. Tencent [Ed: China's biggest IM network] will soon debut Shemale Search [Ed: Dis-s-gusting]

5. Qiu Zhi (Job Search) Web will soon debut HR Search

6. Renren Web will soon debut Human-Flesh Search [Ed: that's an Internet manhunt, by the way

7. Sina will soon debut: Life Search [Ed: the Chinese for this, 人名搜索, has sinister connotations]

8. Baihe Web [Ed: big online dating service] will debut: Man-and-Wife Search

9. Mop will soon debut: Ren Liu Search [Ed: painstaking operations!]

Talk about China. And “Copy To China”. Only that the copycat-ing has just gone all-local with this one…