Personally, I think the long-term effect of pursuing this - tweaked algo, more CPUs, vastly larger datasets - is that we start seeing not parlor games transferred to the net like a mere computer solitaire, but questions answered that were hitherto unanswerable or extremely difficult to answer. I would say, rather, they thought this was *easy* - a place to start, play, experiment and demonstrate, a place to test an algorithm because it's relatively easy to find corroboration of results, a place to play because the universe of actors is small (relatively) and their connections few (relatively) so the computing horsepower needed is not that great. Obviously, they felt that this was really cool. And most of them have a relatively small Bacon number." Google builds Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon into its search system "It's interesting that this small-world phenomena when applied to the world of actors actually shows that in most cases, most actors aren't that far apart from each other. "If you think about search in the traditional sense, for years it has been to try and match, find pages and sources where you would find the text," he told the Hollywood Reporter. Lead engineer Yossi Matias said the project was about showcasing the power of Google's search engine by flagging up the deep-rooted connections between people in the film industry. Pegg therefore has a Bacon number of two, indicating two degrees of separation. By way of example, typing "Bacon number Simon Pegg" reveals that Bacon and the British actor are linked by Tom Cruise, because the latter appeared in 1992's A Few Good Men with Bacon and in 2006's Mission: Impossible III with Pegg. To use Google's system, the user simply types in the words "Bacon number" followed by the name of the actor. Google has demonstrated its knowledge graph with 'Bacon Number'
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