Queen giggles on Google visit

While Philip comments on the dress code


17 October 2008 12:36 GMT / By Amy-Mae Elliott

The Queen's well publicised visit to Google's UK headquarters appears to have been a success.

The Queen, accompanied by the Duke of Edinburgh, visited the search giant's London offices and met software engineers, senior managers, as well as other staff members from both Google and YouTube.

The royal couple were given demos of various Google products from search to Google Earth and were apparently "reduced to giggles" by the famous YouTube clip of a baby with a particularly infectious laugh.

The Independent reports that Philip asked a Google worker, who was dressed casually in a hooded top, chinos and trainers like most of his colleagues: "Just come back from jogging?"
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