Google Adds "Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon" Calculator

[Nix_Hex]

Was going to post this in Headline of the Day but figured that this might be a fun activity for all of us. What's your favorite actor's Bacon number?

Google has built into its search engine the game movie buffs everywhere love to play: Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon.
To find out how many degrees of separation there are between the Footloose star and another actor, simply type the words Bacon number followed by the name of the actor.
For instance, if you google “Bacon number Johnny Depp” you’ll be told that “Johnny Depp’s Bacon number is 2.” That’s because Depp and Helena Bonham Carter appeared in Dark Shadows. And Carter appeared with Bacon in Novocaine.
The game is a spin on the theory of six degrees of separation, which is the idea that anyone on the planet can be connected to another person through a chain of acquaintances in six associations or less.

I tried a few different actors and from those who came off the top of my head (I'm not a movie buff so I blank out when it comes to thinking of actors), Michael Ian Black was the only celebrity who gave me a Bacon Number of more than 2 (3, in this case). I even tried old time celebrities like the cast of I Love Lucy, Lucille Ball, Vivian Vance, and William Frawley (born 1889 no less!), each of which had Bacon Numbers of two. I tried co-stars of obscure, Bacon #2 actors to try and force a 3, and lo and behold, just got more twos. See if you can come up with threes or maybe even fours. Post any successes and any surprise 2's you find! For example, if I wanted to calculate the Bacon # of Mila Kunis, I'd simply do a google search for "bacon number mila kunis." Enjoy!

 

[Gengan]

William Rufus Shafter has the highest Bacon Number peaking at 7.

 

[Texas Cloverleaf]

Astrid Bergès-Frisbey's Bacon number is 3

 

[Relados]

Oh, I love this game. Too bad I don't know movies worth anything.

 

[Wikey]

I got a 3 with Humphrey Bogart. Don't know enough about old movies to do better.

 

[Burn Jack]

The Oracle of Bacon has been doing this much longer and seems to have a much deeper database. Lots of people I couldn't find using Google.

 

[phoopes]

Ronald Reagan has a Bacon number of two. Pretty cool thing, this is.

 

[ck49]

Im trying Indian actors, but it seems like everyone works together and most of them are 3s. I actually went through a list on wikipedia and the highest I found was 4, for M. K. Thyagaraja Bhagavathar (no idea, don't ask). The general way it works is small time actor worked with a big actor once, whose worked with an american actor, who worked with bacon.