Saturday, September 15, 2012

Google introduces 'Bacon number' -- What's the largest degree of separation ...

has been in? Like, seventy. He's so prolific that the the world's intellectuals widely accept the theory that every single person in Hollywood is removed from Kevin Bacon by no more than six direct associative on-screen links.The popular theory of the "six degrees of Kevin Bacon" says that no actor or actress worth his or her salt in Hollywood is separated from Bacon by more than six degrees. It's similar to an older idea proposed by academics -- the six degrees ofEver wondered how many degrees separate a certain actor from Kevin Bacon? Well, Google has made discovering the answer easy to find. The company has.Google has introduced a brand new star-searching tool that achieves the impossible. Not really, but it will do all of the thinking into B movies required to produce a working “Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon” formula. Called “The Bacon Number,” the new appThanks to the work of guys like Engineering Director Yossi Matias, one now only need to type the phrase “Bacon number” followed by a celebrity's name into a Google search field to find out how many numbers separate them from The Bacon Brothers Band's
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