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Google's 'Kevin Bacon' Search Is a Degree or Two Off

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Now you can play everyone's favorite party game ... without using your brain.

Well, sort of. In another example of how a computer is only as smart as its creator (or something), the new Google search tool that allows you to calculate any actor's "Bacon Number" — the number of degrees he or she is removed from a Kevin Bacon movie — doesn't (yet) beat good old-fashioned human memory. Get More »