Posted on 10/27/2011 3:27:19 PM PDT by LesDowrey
Google has added its perspective — with a search-data-based popularity contest — to the comparisons between Occupy Wall Street and the Tea Party.
The data rules in favor of Occupy Wall Street. Users searched for the nascent movement more than the Tea Party for the first time in the United States on Sept. 24, according to Google’s politics blog. Search traffic for the term “Occupy Wall Street” has remained higher ever since.
Vermont, Oregon and New York are the biggest searchers of Occupy Wall Street. Tea Party search traffic peaks every April during tax season.
Because Occupy Wall Street has gotten a good deal of media attention throughout the past several weeks, it seems unfair to compare its search traffic to the Tea Party’s search traffic from only September and October. But Google notes that, even when each movement’s historical peak amount of search traffic is compared, Occupy Wall Street still has the slightly higher number of searches.
The search giant also analyzed recent media coverage of each movement to determine whether its comparison was fair. Between Oct. 7 and last week, the volume of news stories about Occupy Wall Street was only slightly higher than the volume of news stories about the Tea Party.
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Yup. Though I'd still say the biggest factor for why occupypublicparks gets so many hits is it is aimed a younger people that spend vastly more time online. Someone aged 40-50 and above are just more likely to get their news from TV, the radio or perhaps email among family/friends - and that is much more the Tea Party types. The younger crowd grew up on the internet and are used to searching immediately for anything that interests them.
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Freak shows are generally more interesting than orderly, peaceful protests.
Means absolutely nothing except that losers spend many hours in their mothers basement .
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