Google has added a new Easter Egg to its web search – the Bacon Number.
Disappointingly not related to actual bacon, the Bacon Number in this case refers to the Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon, specifically the number of degrees of separation a person has from actor Kevin Bacon.
Google Search now understands the Bacon Number. Type, for example, "Bacon Number Obama" to learn that President Obama has a Bacon number of 2 (connected by Tom Hanks). Google can even handle the reflexive "Bacon Number Kevin Bacon." Of course not every search returns a Bacon Number, not even some you would think should – try to find the Bacon Number of nerd favorite Joss Whedon and Google comes up empty – but for more generally popular celebrities Google now has yet another bit of trivia stored.
It's not quite as nerdtastic as other Google Easter Eggs like "Do a Barrel Roll, but the Bacon Number search shows Google does still have a sense of humor at times.
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