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Philip query turns Google red
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ASIANAGE on 17 October, 2008 03:18:58
 
By OUR SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT
London
Oct. 17: Queen Eli-zabeth II’s husband Pri-nce Philip, who is well-known for
his gaffes, left executives at London office of Internet search engine Google
red-faced during a visit on Thursday.
This time it was not a slip up by the 87-year-old Duke of Edinburgh. He just
caught the Google UK staff unprepared. After a demonstration of Google Earth,
which included showing satellite pictures of Buckingham Palace, Prince Philip
asked the Google team if they could get up an image of their own office, the
Times reported. He asked: "Do you know where it is?"
However, the executives at the Internet search engine’s London office were
left squirming in embarrassment as Google’s London office at 76 Buckingham
Palace Road was not there on Google Earth. The street was there. The surrounding
buildings were there. As for the company HQ, all the screen could show was an
empty site, because the picture had been taken before the office block was
built.
Refusing to be fazed, Mr Nikesh Arora, Google’s president for Europe, West
Asia and Africa, was quoted as saying: "It is just that the picture came from a
time when it was a piece of land." The visit to Google’s London offices by
Queen Elizabeth II and her husband was highlighted with an image of the queen is
being used in the homepage logo of Google UK on Thursday. The queen was amused
by a YouTube clip of a baby laughing uproariously in his high chair .
which was shown to her as part of the presentation.