The other bacon: Google adds another cool tool to Search

phil-dlink · 2013-10-18T13:30:45.000Z

Google adds another cool tool to Search: The Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon

Try it out. “bacon number [actor]”

Google Adds Another Cool Tool to Search: The Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon

Forget using Google’s more powerful search operators, the best ones are the most fun ones. 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

dean · 2013-10-18T13:32:40.000Z

That’s awesome! I will be playing with that all night when I get home.

scottc · 2013-10-18T13:35:12.000Z

Cool! Thanks for posting that!

dean · 2013-10-18T13:38:47.000Z

I can’t find anyone more than 2 degrees out. Damn you Kevin Bacon!

grahamscott9568 · 2013-10-18T13:42:47.000Z

That’s amazing

nikopka · 2013-10-18T13:42:48.000Z

Dean -SW Unpaid Offsite Intern:

I can’t find anyone more than 2 degrees out. Damn you Kevin Bacon!

Neither can I and I even tried Buster Keaton!

dean · 2013-10-18T13:49:58.000Z

NiKopka:

Dean -SW Unpaid Offsite Intern:

I can’t find anyone more than 2 degrees out. Damn you Kevin Bacon!

Neither can I and I even tried Buster Keaton!

Brian Posehn, Richard Prior, Jeremy Clarkson, Eddie Izzard, Rob Zombie, Eminem, Mary-Kate Olsen… I tried everything I can think of. Still can’t get above 2.

dean · 2013-10-18T13:58:02.000Z

I did it!!!

I broke 2! I’m related to an old silent film actor named Rod LaRocque and he is 3 degrees from Kevin Bacon.

Mission Accomplished!

nicole1192 · 2013-10-18T13:58:43.000Z

Ha Jeremy Clarkson, I love those guys!

joe9013 · 2013-10-18T14:02:06.000Z

I’ve been trying names, and can’t get past 2 degrees. I must find one.

I now see I must get past 3, to one-up Dean.

joe9013 · 2013-10-18T14:04:12.000Z

Joseph0486:

I’ve been trying names, and can’t get past 2 degrees. I must find one.

I now see I must get past 3, to one-up Dean.

GOT IT. 4 degrees. Red Norvo (my great-grand uncle). Party hard.

royterdw · 2013-10-18T14:07:18.000Z

James Finlayson’s Bacon number is 3. He appeared in dozens of Laurel and Hardy films.

starg33ker · 2013-10-18T14:11:27.000Z

This has been available over over a year. It’s definitely fun to play with, though!

colin-hoffman · 2013-10-18T14:23:34.000Z

Harry Houdini gave me four degrees.

Harry Houdini and Tully Marshall appeared in The Grim Game.
Tully Marshall and Fay Wray appeared in Thunderbolt.
Fay Wray and Matt Dillon appeared in Off the Menu: The Last Days of Chasen’s.
Matt Dillon and Kevin Bacon appeared in Loverboy.

chestermcmahan9689 · 2013-10-18T18:27:21.000Z

George Jones is three degrees.

kevinschwenk0693 · 2013-10-18T18:29:42.000Z

WOW!

1903 - First Silent Movie: The Great Train Robbery

starred Gilbert M. “Broncho Billy” Anderson

Broncho Billy Anderson’s Bacon number is 3
Broncho Billy Anderson and Charlie Chaplin appeared in His Regeneration.
Charlie Chaplin and Marisa Tomei appeared in Chaplin.
Marisa Tomei and Kevin Bacon appeared in Loverboy.

timintexas · 2013-10-18T18:32:40.000Z

Why is this so addicting?

timintexas · 2013-10-18T18:44:53.000Z

Madge Bellamy’s Bacon number is 3
Madge Bellamy and Mae Clarke appeared in The Daring Young Man.
Mae Clarke and Jamie Lee Curtis appeared in Coming Soon.
Jamie Lee Curtis and Kevin Bacon appeared in 8.

I got to 3 now to get 4

phil-dlink · 2013-10-18T20:02:11.000Z

Interesting one:

Barack Obama’s Bacon number is 2
Barack Obama and Tom Hanks appeared in The Road We’ve Traveled.
Tom Hanks and Kevin Bacon appeared in Apollo 13.

dean · 2013-10-18T22:41:08.000Z

Phil (D-Link):

Interesting one:

Barack Obama’s Bacon number is 2
Barack Obama and Tom Hanks appeared in The Road We’ve Traveled.
Tom Hanks and Kevin Bacon appeared in Apollo 13.

Theodoore Roosevelt is only 4, I think.