STORY: We Are AMUSED... The Queen Giggles At YouTube's Famous Laughing Baby During Visit To Google HQ!!!!!!!

The Queen was given a glimpse into the world behind the internet search engine Google today when she visited the organisation's offices.



The Monarch, accompanied by the Duke of Edinburgh, was introduced to software engineers, senior managers, and a host of other staff that keep the world's most popular internet search site running.



But when the royal party were shown a You Tube clip of a baby with an infectious laugh they were reduced to giggles by the footage.



The visit was celebrated by an image of the Queen being incorporated into Google's UK homepage logo.



The 'Google doodle', which changes periodically to mark national holidays or anniversaries of major events, features a profile of the monarch and a crown just for today.



Nikesh Arora, president of Google Europe, Middle East and Africa, who took the Monarch around his company's UK headquarters in Victoria, London, said: 'She did seem very very interested in everything going on.



'She has used You Tube and has her own Royal Channel and understands what our products are about.'



The Queen is perhaps Britain's most famous internet user. She has embraced technology and is said to email her grandchildren.



But Philip is thought to be the real fan of computers and the internet, using them regularly.



The royal couple were treated to a demonstration of Google's search capabilities that have become a staple tool for millions of web users just 10 years after the organisation was founded by Larry Page and Sergey Brin in California.



Before the presentation began, the Duke chatted to Matthew Trewhella, a developer advocate who promotes his organisation's products to companies.



Philip asked the Google worker, who was dressed casually in a hooded top, chinos and trainers like many of his colleagues: 'Just come back from jogging?'



The royal couple were shown searches made for a number of topics, from their nearby London residence Buckingham Palace, Royal Corgis - a favourite of the Queen - and one of the capital's most famous landmarks, Big Ben.



During the tour the Queen was shown a series of demonstrations explaining Google's various operations from Google Earth, where users can access detailed maps and satellite images of the planet, to a mobile phone using the search engine's technology.





But when the Duke asked staff to find their own offices in Buckingham Palace Road, the site but not the building, which has been constructed in recent years, could be seen on Google Earth.



The royal party later chatted to 16 schoolchildren, all winners in a competition to design new doodles for Google.



The royal couple were also introduced to Chad Hurley, who co-founded You Tube, the popular video-sharing website bought by Google in 2006.



He showed the Queen and Duke footage of a baby sitting in a high chair being made to laugh by an unseen person making a "boo" noise.



The clip has been viewed more than 63 million times and the Queen turned to Philip and said 'lovely little thing isn't it', adding: 'Amazing a child would laugh like that.'



The Monarch has her own Royal Channel on YouTube which was launched last Christmas and has been viewed 1.6 million times by internet users - making it one of the most popular on the site.



In 2006, the Queen's Speech was made available as a podcast for the first time and in 1997 the monarch launched the official royal website during a visit to Kingsbury High School in north west London.



More than 30 years ago the Queen sent an email for the first time when she visited an Army base in 1976.



During the visit she also chatted to ordinary people who have become You Tube stars after uploading footage of themselves on to the site.



Peter Oakley, 81, from Derbyshire, who uses the web name geriatric1927, has posted more than 100 video diaries in more than two years and has attracted millions of hits.



He said: 'I started almost by accident, I didn't know anything about You Tube.



'I was interested in slideshows and Photoshop and I needed to incorporate some video into it and then had the thrill of putting up a video on You Tube.



'At the time I was 79 and all these social networking sites were for young people, but I and You Tube got a lot of attention and things started to grow.



'I talk about growing up during the war - about air raid shelters, rationing, the influx of American GIs and how we as children reacted to them, things like that.'



Before the Queen left she used a computer mouse to upload a new video on to the royal website.



The footage was from a Buckingham Palace reception held in 1968 for sportsmen and women who had taken part in that year's Olympic Games.



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