> A good college CompSci student with that data could pick out the troublemakers/leaders.

Occupy fell apart because it didn't have leaders. Or any coherent agenda. It was a bunch of people dissatisfied with the status quo without any realistic prescription for improving it.

The Tea Party at least knew what they wanted. Their problem was taking money from and thereby becoming owned by the entrenched Republican power brokers.

Neither of their failings had anything to do with Google.