Google has finally weighed in on the national debate over the Occupy Wall Street movement.
Specifically, Google’s politics and elections team has chosen to compare the popularity of Google searches for “Occupy Wall Street” for those of the terms “Tea Party” and the number of news articles about the movements on Google News, to see which movement comes out on top online.
In the case of overall search keyword popularity, “Occupy Wall Street,”
As Google’s Jake Parrillo wrote on the Google Politics and Elections blog on Thursday:
After spending many days in the top 20 terms on Google Trends, we agreed that it would be useful to examine the dynamics of search queries in America related to OWS.
Across the American political spectrum, we have another grassroots movement that we can use for comparison purposes: the [Tea Party]. Based on search patterns from Google users, Americans’ interest in these two large groups is clear.
