The game, which involves picking any actor or actress and linking them back to actor Kevin Bacon, was reportedly created in 1994 by three students at Pennsylvania's Albright College.
It is based on the idea that every movie actor in the world can be connected to Footloose star Bacon in no more than six movie associations.
Now simply search "Bacon number", followed by the name of a celebrity, and Google will work out the degrees of separation between them and Bacon.
For example, according to Google, comedian Rhys Darby has a Bacon number of 2, having starred in The Boat That Rocked alongside January Jones, who appeared in X-Men: First Class with Bacon.
Sir Peter Jackson, the Conchords' Bret McKenzie and Jermaine Clement, Martin Henderson, Anna Paquin, Cliff Curtis, Lucy Lawless, Sam Neill, Robyn Malcolm, and Temuera Morrison also have a bacon number of 2.
However, BuzzFeed has found the search engine comes up with some surprising results.
US President Barack Obama has a Bacon number of 2, while Republican rival Mitt Romney does not have a Bacon number at all. Stranger still, the late US President Jimmy Carter has a Bacon number of 3.
The New York Magazine noted that other Bacon number generators are more accurate as they use websites such as online film database IMDb, which Google does not.
Google said the Bacon numbers were based on information from Google's Knowledge Graph, which is a "map of real-world people, entities, and the connections between them".
- By Paul Harper of nzherald.co.nz
