Sunday, September 16, 2012

Google's New Game Bacon Number Results in Bacon Number 2

We've seen 'tilt' and 'do a barrel roll', but over the past day or so, the company has added another cool new search operator: Bacon number. No, it's not a label that meatpacking companies assign to their pork products.Google wants to make playing "Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon" easier. The search engine has launched a new tool known as the Bacon number. By typing in any actor's name followed by the words "Bacon number," Google willDo you know how many movies Kevin Bacon 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 noWith its new "Bacon number" Easter egg, however, Google can finally offer up some information that's far, far more useful: the number of degrees any actor or actress is from Kevin Bacon. A "Bacon number," for those who don't know, is the number ofKevin Bacon can be linked to just about every actor in Hollywood. For example, Kevin Costner and Bacon starred in “JFK” together. That makes Costner the first degree of Kevin Bacon, or, in this case, Costner's Bacon Number is one. Another example would
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