Google loses self; queen amused by baby

LONDON, Oct. 16 (UPI) -- Britain's Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip were surprised during their visit to Google's London office to find the building does not show up on Google Earth.

The queen and her royal consort were shown a demonstration of Google's satellite image program during their Thursday tour and Philip asked the technicians if they could bring up a picture of their current location, The Times of London reported Thursday.

However, all Google Earth displayed for the building's 76 Buckingham Palace Road location was an empty space.

Google employees said the building was missing from the picture because it was taken before the office block was built.

"It is just that the picture came from a time when it was a piece of land," said Nikesh Arora, the company's president for Europe, Middle East and Africa.

However, the Google workers redeemed themselves in the eyes of the royal couple by making them laugh with a famous YouTube video of a Swedish baby vigorously laughing.

"Lovely little thing isn't it?" The Telegraph reported Elizabeth as saying to her husband. "Amazing a child would laugh like that."