[xomateix]

This made me remember a webpage that using IMDB would calculate the degrees of separation between Nicolas Cage and the input person (actress, director...) of your choice.

I did a quick search and couldn't find it. Does anybody remember it? I'm wondering if my memory or my search skills are failing or if it has simply disappeared.

[bryanrasmussen]

sure it wasn't 6 degrees of Kevin Bacon? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Six_Degrees_of_Kevin_Bacon

[gingericha]

And at one point even, google allowed you to directly search for someone's bacon number: https://www.wired.com/2012/09/easter-egg-google-connects-the...

[richrichardsson]

I've only ever heard of something similar, the Bacon Number, which is the degrees of separation between a given person and Kevin Bacon [1].

My Bacon Number is 2, having been an extra in Alexander, which featured Connor Paolo, who was in Mystic River with Kevin Bacon.

[1] https://www.oracleofbacon.org/help.php

[agucova]

In the course Introduction to Computer Science: AI (CS50AI) by Harvard, one of the first homeworks is implementing a search exactly like this with Python.

It was extremely fun!