Bacon Number

So Google has a new function. If you are familiar with the Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon, this function pretty much sucks all of the fun and ingenuity out of it. Just type "bacon number" and then the name of an actor/actress and hit enter. Boom. Bacon number. Try finding someone with a Bacon number of higher than 3.

So now the academic-y question: How does this change the way we interact with search engines? Are we asking for media to become more transparent? A recent article on Google's bacon number app said this will make people realize that search engines are more for learning and browsing rather than matching an answer to a question. What do you think? Is this like the explanation tabs we get on Pandora or coupon generators? Are we as a society asking for more explanation as to why we are consuming the media we have?

I, by the way, have a bacon number of 3. Funny story.