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"Google has added its perspective \u2014 with a search-data-based popularity contest \u2014 to the comparisons between Occupy Wall Street and the Tea Party.\nThe 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. \nVermont, Oregon and New York are the biggest searchers of Occupy Wall Street. Tea Party search traffic peaks every April during tax season.\nBecause 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.\nThe 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. \n\n\n\n\nOccupy Wall Street seems to be legitimately more popular as a search topic than the Tea Party. So what does that mean? Essentially, more people are typing that search term into search engines. It's dangerous to deduce anything else. Whether or not the two movements are even comparable is also debatable.\nMark Meckler, co-founder of the Tea Party Patriots, and other Tea Party leaders have argued that Occupy Wall Street \"is no tea party.\" And U.S.-based researcher for Cage Prisoners Ayesha Kazmi in a Guardian editorial wrote that \"posing the various Occupy movements as an alternative to the Tea Party is a media oversimplification to fit the current movements within an easily comprehensible narrative.\"\nVeteran Democratic Party pollster Douglas Schoen, reports the Wall Street Journal, had a researcher ask those who are physically occupying Wall Street about the comparison. The firm found that 35% of them have \"goals to influence the Democratic Party the way the Tea Party has influenced the GOP.\"\n\n\n\n\nImages courtesy NM Incite and Think Progress"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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