Queen Nets Her Own Google Logo

Thursday, October 16 09:28 am

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The "Google doodle", which changes periodically to mark national holidays or anniversaries of major events, will feature a profile of the monarch and a crown.

The special logo will appear on the search engine's UK homepage to mark a visit by the Queen to the organisation's London offices in Westminster later today.

The monarch has embraced technological changes over the decades - sending an email for the first time when she visited an Army base in 1976.

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

And last Christmas the first Royal Channel on YouTube - the popular video-sharing website - was launched. It now has 54 royal videos that have been viewed 1.6 million times.

During the visit to Google's offices the Queen, accompanied by the Duke of Edinburgh, will meet the company's senior management.

The royal party will be shown a series of demonstrations explaining Google's various operations, from its popular search engine facility to Google Earth, where users can access detailed maps and satellite images of the planet.

The Queen and Duke will also meet 16 schoolchildren, all winners in a competition to design new doodles for Google.

Later at a reception the royal couple will chat to members of the YouTube community whose videos have proved particularly popular with internet users.

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