Get all your news in one place.
100’s of premium titles.
One app.
Start reading
The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Technology
Jack Schofield

Queen Elizabeth drops in on Google UK

The Queen's Google doodle
The Queen's Google doodle

I missed Her Majesty's visit to Google's UK headquarters, but for security reasons, I don't expect she could do the "green" thing and walk. However, Google's office is just opposite Victoria Station, so if Her Maj used the back door to Buck House, it's not very far.

The AP story on Google News says:

During the visit, the queen and her husband, Prince Philip, saw a demonstration of the company's technology and met schoolchildren who won a competition to design their own Google "doodles" — what the Mountain View, California-based company calls special editions of their blue, green, red and yellow logo.
The royal couple met users of the Google-owned YouTube video Web site, including Peter Oakley, an 81-year-old known as "Geriatric1927." Oakley's videos on the site earned him a nomination for a YouTube award in 2006.

I expect the Queen uses Google Search, like the rest of us, and she has her own channel on YouTube
http://uk.youtube.com/theroyalchannel

We've added the Royal doodle to our Gallery.

I'm a huge fan of Google doodles and wrote a bit about the man behind them, Dennis Hwang. I met him when he judged another Doodle 4 Google competition for British schoolchildren.

Sign up to read this article
Read news from 100’s of titles, curated specifically for you.
Already a member? Sign in here
Related Stories
Top stories on inkl right now
One subscription that gives you access to news from hundreds of sites
Already a member? Sign in here
Our Picks
Fourteen days free
Download the app
One app. One membership.
100+ trusted global sources.