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Queen's image marks Google visit Queen has fit of Google giggles
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An image of the Queen has been incorporated into Google's UK homepage logo to mark her visit to the internet giant's British headquarters in London. Internet giant Google was given the royal seal of approval when the Queen had a fit of the giggles during a tour of its London headquarters.
The specially-commissioned image, called a "Google doodle", features the Queen's profile and a crown. The royal party had been shown a clip of a baby with an infectious laugh from the company's YouTube video site.
The Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh are meeting staff, young competition winners, and users of the Google-owned video site YouTube during her visit. Google's UK homepage logo was given a makeover for the occasion, featuring a specially-commissioned "Google doodle" of the Queen's profile and a crown.
Last Christmas, the Queen launched a dedicated royal channel on YouTube. The monarch met staff including software engineers and senior managers.
"Doodles" on Google's search engine homepage change periodically to mark occasions such as national holidays and anniversaries of major events. She also chatted to 16 schoolchildren who had won a competition to design new "doodles" for the firm.
Royal e-mail Google changes its logo periodically to mark national holidays or anniversaries of major events and its UK site is featuring the Queen's profile throughout Thursday.
During the visit to Google's offices in Victoria, the Queen and Prince Philip are meeting Nikesh Arora, the president of Google's Europe, Middle East and Africa operations, as well as key UK staff. The Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh were introduced to Chad Hurley, who co-founded You Tube, the popular video sharing site bought by Google in 2006.
They are being shown a series of demonstrations explaining Google's various operations, and meeting schoolchildren who won a competition to design new "doodles". They also met ordinary people who have become YouTube stars.
The Queen has kept up to date with technological changes over the decades, sending an e-mail for the first time when she visited an army base in 1976, according to Buckingham Palace. Mr Hurley showed them footage of a baby sitting in a high chair being made to laugh by an unseen person making a "boo" noise, which has been viewed more than 63 million times.
In 1997 she launched the official royal website and in 2006 she made her annual Christmas message available for download as a podcast. The Queen remarked: "Lovely little thing isn't it. Amazing a child would laugh like that."
Last Christmas she launched a dedicated royal channel on YouTube which now contains 54 royal videos and has been visited by 1.6m people. Royal website
Last Christmas, the Queen launched a dedicated royal channel on YouTube which now contains 54 royal videos and has been visited by 1.6m people.
She had first sent an e-mail when she visited an army base in 1976, according to Buckingham Palace, and in 1997 launched the official royal website.
Nikesh Arora, president of Google Europe, Middle East and Africa, said: "She did seem very, very interested in everything going on."
During the tour, the Duke of Edinburgh chatted to Matthew Trewhella, a developer advocate who promotes his organisation's products to companies.
He asked the Google worker, who was dressed casually in a hooded top, chinos and trainers: "Just come back from jogging?"
The royal couple were shown searches made for a number of topics, such as Buckingham Palace and the Royal corgis.
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