So which online dictionaries still have the proper definitions?
Rewriting Dictionaries
Encyclopedia Britannica is mostly on the level, for one. Funny enough. Urban Dictionary is also somewhat reasonable. That one's a mixed bag though.
Why is anyone paying attention to how Google defines anything?
op literally explained this. because it's how the youth get controlled.
Because it's what people read and take for granted.
By now, most people have accepted what Google tells them as truth. And at first, that was fairly accurate. Back then, Google only reported the results. But times have changed. Now, Google serves very specific political agendas but have not gained a reputation for this, so they are still considered a pure "search engine" even though they alter their results to suit specific agenda.
The main issue is that so many young folks take Google to be a paragon of rationalism. They don't think of Google as a political source, they see it as an avenue to view the truth. And this is the danger. People consider themselves to be rationalists, search their questions on Google, and get hugely biased results to the point of falsifying dictionary definitions. That's fucked.
I thought it always let people pay to affect searches and rank? Otherwise I don't know how google ever grew, it wasn't much of a search engine back when.
I'm not sure how they grew. I'd always assumed it was because they offered more accurate search results than most, and grew from there.
Nowadays they still offer accurate search results, but it's only thanks to the detailed profile they've built of each user, their interests and such, and even then it's put through their political filter.
Google's an advertising company. See: AdSense.
The search engine is a "free" service that they use for data-mining sold to the highest bidder and further advertising which feeds into the AdSense thing by taking your common searches and delivering ads based on them.
It sounded pretty implausible to me that the Elders at Google were sitting around altering specific definitions to suit their goals. I wouldn't expect a tech company to be able to muscle their way into dictionary-writing business or much bother with it. Looking into it, it seems they just copy paste all their definitions from the Oxford American College Dictionary. Oxforddictionaries.com has the same definition of fascism.
But who's writing their definitions, and deciding to change what? I can't find any names so far, but I'm curious as to how many of them (((echo))).
Advertising is definitely their bread and butter.
I'm sure not everyone at Google is on the same political page. But there are enough (((globalists))) in their ranks to alter the public perception, especially given their pre-existing reputation as a pure knowledge engine.