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la recherche sociale

English translation: social search


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French term or phrase: la recherche sociale
English translation:social search
Entered by: veratek
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07:06 Apr 28, 2011
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Tech/Engineering - Internet, e-Commerce / Facebook
French term or phrase: la recherche sociale
Ainsi, les multiples acquisitions dans le domaine (des réseaux sociaux =social networks) n’ont pas encore fait naître une brique « Google » capable de concurrencer Facebook ( voir les récentes initiatives de Google dans le domaine de la recherche sociale avec le nouvel outil +1)

How would you translate this phrase?
veratek
France
Local time: 20:27
social search
Explanation:
The inevitable term.

And how do you do it? Using a social search engine, of course.
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rkillings
United States
Local time: 11:27
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4 +2social searchrkillings
3social networking research
Miranda Joubioux


  

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6 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +2
social search


Explanation:
The inevitable term.

And how do you do it? Using a social search engine, of course.

rkillings
United States
Local time: 11:27
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 8
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Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Catharine Cellier-Smart: the term Google uses. Basically means that when you do an internet search, results from your connections on social networks will pop up first. See : http://www.google.com/support/websearch/bin/answer.py?answer...
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agree  writeaway: and with Catherine. Google's original language is English after all so checking Google's own terminology seems like a logical place to start looking
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17 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5
social networking research


Explanation:
http://techcrunch.com/2010/07/12/google-social-networking-fo...

Miranda Joubioux
Local time: 20:27
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Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
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Changes made by editors
Apr 28, 2011 - Changes made by Stéphanie Soudais:
FieldSocial Sciences => Tech/Engineering
Apr 28, 2011 - Changes made by writeaway:
FieldTech/Engineering => Social Sciences
Apr 28, 2011 - Changes made by Stéphanie Soudais:
Term asked la recherche sociale (Facebook context) => la recherche sociale
Field (write-in)(none) => Facebook


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