Sunday, September 16, 2012

What's Your Bacon Number Need Ryan Gosling's Ask Google. Fun With Google Search Michelle Williams's RFID Tagging Students Is All About The Money adds another cool tool to search Kevin Takes Guess Work Out of ‘Degrees Bacon’ beefs up Knowledge Graph with number Unveils Most Important Tool Date Every Actor's Degree Separation from [Kevin Bacon] Sports Best Hoopster Baseball Jersey MJ #45 White Sox 'Six Degrees Bacon' Gets Makeover

What's Your 'Bacon Number?' Just Ask Google What's your "bacon number?" No, not how many slices you've eaten today. It's a new tool Google rolled out to end bar fights everywhere by figuring out how many degrees of separation someone is ... Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon returns with Google's Bacon Number Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon was a short-lived fad from the late 1990s which sprang from the notion that anyone in Hollywood was no more than six steps removed from sharing a credit with actor Kevin Bacon. The creators of the game, college buddies Craig Fass, Brian Turtle and Mike Ginelli, had their moment of fame, promoted the game and it thrived for a bit before fading into obscurity. Google launches "Bacon number" search The engineers in Mountain View, California have been spending their time trying to figure out how many degrees of separation there are between Kevin Bacon and every other actor, living or dead. Effective immediately, if you perform a Google search for an actor's name followed by the words "bacon number," the first thing you'll see [...] Testing the limits of the Google Bacon Number Would you like to take what remains of today's work productivity and send it straight down an entertaining online drain? Great. Then spend some time exploring the new Google Bacon Number search functionality, which purportedly allows you to determine how many degrees any actor is from Kevin Bacon . That's right, you no longer need to rely on your movie knowledge when you play Six Degrees of ... Bacon number: Google turns the party game into a new Easter egg This week Google rolled out Bacon number, another fun feature that's sure to turn a lot of otherwise productive afternoons into time sinkholes. If you've ever wanted to automate the party game "Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon," Google's got your back. Google beefs up Knowledge Graph with Bacon number There are few things in life that can't be improved by adding Bacon. Google search results are the latest to learn this lesson. Queries containing an actor's name and "Bacon number" will show users the precise number of degrees between said actor and Kevin Bacon. Playing with the new feature today, we found numbers for Leonardo DiCaprio (2), Humphrey Bogart (3) and Steve Jobs (2). Steve Jobs has ... Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon Comes to Google: Search for Any Actor's 'Bacon Number' Have you ever played the game Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon? Google has now made it even easier, offering a one-box for actor searches that includes the actor's Bacon Number, which is the number of connections between Bacon and the actor in your query. High pork content: Calculating the Coachella Valley's Bacon Number Actor Kevin Bacon and wife Kyra Sedgwick at the 2006 Golden Globe Awards. (Getty Images) On Friday, Google launched a fresh take on the old Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon meme when it launched the "Bacon Number" -- a Google search easter egg that allows the curious to type in almost any actor's name followed by the words "Bacon number" to quickly find out how close a given actor is to Bacon and how ... Google introduces 'Bacon number' — What's the largest degree of separation you can find? Google wants to make playing "Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon" easier. The search engine has launched a new tool known Figuring Coachella Valley's 'Bacon Number' Google introduced a fresh take on the old Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon meme Friday when it launched the 'Bacon Number' — a Google search 'Easter egg' that allows the curious to type in almost any actor's name followed by the words 'Bacon number' to quickly find out how close a given actor is to Bacon and how, specifically, they're connected.
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References:
http://www.foxnews.com/tech/2012/09/13/google-adds-6-degrees-kevin-bacon-search-function/
http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/09/14/need-ryan-goslings-bacon-number-ask-google/
http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20120907/08595920309/rfid-tagging-students-is-all-about-money.shtml
http://rssfeeds.usatoday.com/~r/usatoday-TechTopStories/~3/ISXerpf_JBU/1
http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-57512471-93/google-beefs-up-knowledge-graph-with-bacon-number/?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20
http://feeds.gawker.com/~r/gawker/full/~3/Dma4RtNgzzQ/google-unveils-most-important-search-tool-to-date-every-actors-degree-of-separation-from-kevin-bacon
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/thr/news/~3/i-H91pt9A_s/story01.htm
http://pixelhat.net/

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