It's not often that Google gets to welcome someone almost as important as either of its co-founders. But today's VIPs came close - that's right, it was none other than the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh! Woo-hoo! Monkey hears the pair are always on the web looking up funny videos, booking cheap weekends away, bidding for The Bill video box sets on eBay ... that kind of thing. So doubtless they already know all about Google, based appropriately enough at 76 Buckingham Palace Road in central London. Not only that, the Queen uploaded a piece of archive footage of a 1969 reception for British Olympians to The Royal Channel on YouTube - owned, bien sur, by Google. Of all the souvenirs that the pair have collected around the world over the last 60 years or so, we are sure that only a very few will compete with today's gift of some Google code printed on aluminium. And what the blinkin' heck is one supposed to do with that? We're sure nothing was further from Her Maj's thoughts.
