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Google's "Bacon number" search
- seangransee 14y agoso far, the highest bacon number i've found is from another actor with the last name "Bacon" https://www.google.com/search?q=bacon+number+lloyd+bacon https://www.google.com/search?q=bacon+number+lloyd+bacon
- dexter313 14y ago7 http://www.google.com/search?num=100&hl=en&newwindow=0&suggon=0&safe=off&q=Bacon+number+William+Rufus+Shafter&btnG=Search http://www.google.com/search?num=100&hl=en&newwindow...
- 3JPLW 14y agoIt should be 2. William Shatner was in Loaded Weapon 1 (1993)[0] with Denise Richards[1] Denise Richards was in Wild Things (1998)[2] with Kevin Bacon Source: http://www.cs.washington.edu/education/courses/cse373/11wi/homework/7/expected_output_all.txt http://www.cs.washington.edu/education/courses/cse373/11wi/h... [0] http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0107659/fullcredits#cast http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0107659/fullcredits#cast [1] http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000612/ http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000612/ [2] http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120890/ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120890/
- feefie 14y agoGoogle says Justin Bieber's bacon number is 4, but he was in Men In Black III with Josh Brolin and Josh Brolin was in Hollow Man with Keven Bacon.
- smcl 14y agoWeird, Adolf Hitler is meant to have a Bacon number of 3, but he doesn't return anything on Google. From the Wikipedia page: Adolf Hitler was in Ewige Jude, Der (1940) with Curt Bois Curt Bois was in Great Sinner, The (1949) with Kenneth Tobey Kenneth Tobey was in Hero at Large (1980) with Kevin Bacon
- irishcoffee 14y agoI see little need to waste CPU cycles on him, personally.
- lols 14y agoedgy as fuck
- nsns 14y agoDiscussion - http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2012/sep/13/google-six-degrees-kevin-bacon http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2012/sep/13/google-six-degree...
- soupboy 14y agoDoesn't work with Erdös number, in case any of you were wondering.
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- yen223 14y agoImplementing an algorithm to determine an actor's Bacon number is about as nerdy as it gets =)
- rglovejoy 14y agoRight. I tried finding out Erdös' Bacon number and nothing came up.
- libria 14y ago4, if an Erdos/Bacon number were a thing: P. Erdős and C. Pomerance published "On the largest prime factors of n and n +1" C. Pomerance and L. Adleman published "On Distinguishing Prime Numbers From Composite Numbers" L Adleman was a mathematical consultant in Sneakers with David Strathairn. David Strathairn and Kevin Bacon appeared in The River Wild. //edit, Randy Pausch actually appeared in a movie so I'm sure there's a connection there, too.
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- philwelch 14y agoYes, the elusive Bacon-Erdos number: http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erdős–Bacon_number http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erdős–Bacon_number
- waterlesscloud 14y agoI wonder what the cutoff for notability is. It seems to work for big names but not bit part players. Oracle Of Bacon works with all of imdb, but I guess google can't use that resource...
- sethish 14y agoBoo, I have a bit part listed on IMDB and it does not work on my name.
- waterlesscloud 14y agoI'm thinking they're using something like wikipedia movie entries as the source. Something that just lists topline cast. As some other threads mention, cameos from even well-known types may not be factored in.
- prawn 14y agoNothing for Bill Laimbeer.
- hds 14y agoIt doesn't appear to work if you are using google (even .com) in another language, confirmed with Spanish (Castilian).
- bibinou 14y agoappend &hl=en to the URI : https://www.google.com/search?q=Bacon+number+Simon+Pegg&hl=en https://www.google.com/search?q=Bacon+number+Simon+Pegg&...
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- mixmax 14y agoI'm disappointed it doesn't work with Erdös numbers. I thought Google was supposed to be a geeky company.
- dylanz 14y agoI was at a dinner event in New Zealand, started talking to this old guy about random topics, and as it turns out... he has an Erdös number of 1. I was definitely a bit floored as he started to describe what they worked on (in person at one point), especially as most of what he spoke of went right over my head. It was a pretty neat and random thing to experience. As for a "Bacon Number"... I'm giving myself a 1. I actually have a plate of bacon sitting right next to me, and that's the bacon that matters the most. EDIT: As per jerf (good catch!), I can confirm that I am not actually bacon. I changed my "bacon number" above from 0 to 1.
- jerf 14y agoThat would still be 1. To have a bacon (non-capital) number of 0, you would have to be the bacon.
- huhtenberg 14y agoI'm pretty sure there's plenty of a well-marbled tissue where my abs used to be :)
- mnicole 14y ago"Be the bacon" I hope someone takes this ad campaign idea and runs with it.
- davelog 14y agoHuman meat is often referred to as 'long pig'. That'd be a gutsy campaign.
- daurnimator 14y agoIf you have eaten enough bacon; you are in large quantities, derived from bacon. I think a bacon number of ~0.25 is entirely possible.
- rurounijones 14y agoWell colour me shocked, I thought I would give Google a workout and try "Orson Welles"... turns out his number is a very run-of-the-mill 2
- lazugod 14y agoAs are Charlie Chaplin and Alfred Hitchcock (they even share the same Bacon liaison).
- essayist 14y agoIt took me a while to find someone with a Bacon number>2: Prince
- tmh88j 14y agoThe first one I found was 3: Chip Foose, a car designer. I couldn't think of anyone and he happened to be smiling at me from the calendar on my desk.
- picklefish 14y agoMe too. I had to go to foreign child actors. Found a 4 with Kåre Hedebrant who played the kid, Oscar, in "Let the Right One In" (The original swedish version of Let Me In) Edit: However, oracle of bacon says he's only a 3...
- opinali 14y agoTry foreign and old actors, e.g. Mazzaropi (famous Brazilian comedian from the 1950'-70's), Google computes a bacon number 5... but The Oracle of Bacon returns 3, they have a bigger database.
- bratsche 14y agoI got to 3 with Bela Lugosi. I couldn't get any further, so I finally turned to the comments to see who had >3.
- chubot 14y agoHm, it seems like basically any actor you can think of off the top of your head has a Bacon number of 2 (or less). I guess that makes sense. Anyone have some interesting examples of 4+ bacon numbers??
- ImprovedSilence 14y agoYeah, I can't get any higher than two... granted, I'm not super up my with Hollywood, but I thought I could get more than that.....
- JonnieCache 14y agoSalvador dali was the only way I could get over 2 (he's 3) in about 5 minutes of trying. Oh yeah, and stephen hawking is 3.
- garypezza 14y agojustin bieber has 4, the largest I found
- imperialWicket 14y agoJustin Bieber (4) - admittedly an edge case, but a popular candidate without close ties (yet). It also includes the "classical baby i ' m grown up now the poetry show" link, with which I wasn't previously familiar.
- jdpage 14y agoJustin Bieber is actually a 2. http://oracleofbacon.org/cgi-bin/movielinks?a=Kevin+Bacon&b=Justin+Bieber http://oracleofbacon.org/cgi-bin/movielinks?a=Kevin+Bacon...
- stan_rogers 14y agoIt's got to be hard to get there if all of the connections are mapped -- I'm a 3. (I worked briefly with Giancarlo Giannini to prep him for his role in the awful Mimic, since I was shining shoes for a living at the time and the producers were willing to give me $200/hr to show him how to hold a brush; Giannini was in Hannibal with Julianne Moore; Moore was in Crazy, Stupid Love with Bacon.)
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- mcmire 14y agoWell, I guess this makes the Oracle of Bacon obsolete. Wonder how those guys feel about this.
- engtech 14y agoTurns out that Kevin Bacon is only the 444th best candidate for being the center of a six degrees search of Hollywood. http://oracleofbacon.org/center.php http://oracleofbacon.org/center.php
- engtech 14y agoThe top five best centers for six degrees of hollywood separation are: Dennis Hopper (2.802166) Harvey Keitel (2.812642) Donald Sutherland (I) (2.819748) David Carradine (I) (2.819993) Udo Kier (2.826828)
- mammalfriend 14y agoWhat this tells me is that someone in the Google PR department had an idea, and a bunch of really smart people actually were resourced to work on it. While at the same time, my search results for useful queries have more spam than ever. Hm.
- endeavor 14y agoHopefully this was a 20% project.
- gyaresu 14y agoThere's a Gareth Bacon... :(
- mhartl 14y agoFor the curious, confused, or uninitiated, this whole phenomenon is almost certainly based on the coincidence that "separation" and "Kevin Bacon" sound similar, combined with the well-known phrase "six degrees of separation" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Six_degrees_of_separation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Six_degrees_of_separation). Thus, "six degrees of Kevin Bacon".
- jdechko 14y agoApparently I have a Bacon Number of 4. I dated a girl who was an extra in "Footloose" (2011 remake), with Dennis Quaid, who was in "The Right Stuff" with Fred Ward, who was in "Tremors" with Mr. Bacon. Neat.
- acheron 14y agoI do too, through actually appearing on film, even. Ok, videotape. I was in a videotaped school play with someone who according to Oracle of Bacon has a Bacon number of 3. (Google doesn't work since he's pretty obscure, Oracle of Bacon uses all of IMDB I guess.) Now I just need to find out if I can get an Erdos number out of any of my advisors.
- kevinpacheco 14y agoIt's flawed. Google claims a Bacon number of > 1 for Johnny Carson, Rosie O'Donnell and Jay Leno, but he sat for interviews on their talk shows. Also, the results for some musicians include recorded-footage appearances in movies where they had no interaction with the cast.
- ok_craig 14y agoStill seems to be just a rather clear distinction between being in a movie or not being in a movie, regardless of significance of the part or role played. To me this doesn't seem like a flaw.
- ColinWright 14y agoI have an Erdös number of the first kind of 2, and an Erdös number of the second kind of at most 3. I'm working on my Bacon number. So far I've appeared on television with: Carol Vorderman, Gareth Jones, Angela Rippon, Fred Dineage, and several others that I need to track down, but are even less well known. My challenge is working out who I have been with that might have been in a film.
- pbhjpbhj 14y agoYou were juggling on How2?
- ColinWright 14y agoYup - "How do you juggle your numbers?" - the SiteSwap notation in action, with the "jugglometer".
- evan2 14y agoAhmadinejad is 5 https://www.google.com/#hl=en&output=search&q=Bacon+number+ahmadinejad&fp=1 https://www.google.com/#hl=en&output=search&q=Bacon+...
- mey 14y agoDoes this mean you can ask Google Now for Bacon numbers?
- throwawaay 14y agoIt worked for me.
- Jun8 14y agoWhat would be the most intuitive way to define negative Bacon numbers? If we take this suggestion for negative Erdos numbers (http://infactorium.blogspot.com/2009/01/negative-erdos-numbers.html http://infactorium.blogspot.com/2009/01/negative-erdos-numbe...), then this would be people who turned down an offer to star in a movie with Bacon. There must be many people in this category.
- c3d 14y agoNot using IMDB sometimes leads to incorrect results. For "Louis de Funès", Google finds a Bacon number of 3: Louis de Funès and Terry-Thomas appeared in Don't Look Now... We're Being Shot At!. Terry-Thomas and Tom Aldredge appeared in The Mouse on the Moon. Tom Aldredge and Kevin Bacon appeared in Taking Chance. The Oracle finds 2: Louis de Funès was in Les aventures de Rabbi Jacob (1973) with Janet Brandt was in Queens Logic (1991) with Kevin Bacon