What 'One' Googles... Your captions

The Queen seemed most definitely amused when she visited the offices of Google, the world's number one search engine, today. Her Majesty is no slouch at computers and is known to exchange e-mails with her grandchildren as well as having her own YouTube channel.

What, we wondered, might our venerable Head of State do on Google herself.

When she needs a bit of advice on taking care of her much-loved corgis, for example, Her Majesty might find use for sites like www.pedigreedogs.co.uk.

If, on the other hand, Prince Philip performs of his renowned gaffes, she might feel like visiting www.relate.org.uk or www.savethemarriage.com 

She definitely won't, however, be paying a visit anytime soon to www.republic.org.uk - the official website for the UK Republican movement. Or, for that matter, to sites like www.dianamurder.com... which need absolutely no further explanation.

So what do you think One searches for on One's PC? Send your answers below...

Comments

[Gut Liam]

WE of the GOOGLE GENERATION have no need for rote, and we never argue with the referee, but....

I wonder if H.M. has found the fun weekly competition ‘Where was I?’ in the Travel section of the Sunday Times newspaper, and the Timesonline, also in the travel section, Sunday to Wednesday, with answers to the questions the following Sunday? Without rote and local knowledge, a web search engine such as Google is needed to solve the clues.

One week we got very close to need to Google know, Bletchley. When is a village not a village? Fenny Stratford had a market on Mondays which was confirmed by Charter in 1609, and thus is a Market TOWN. This second village has a shallow lock, with a pub the Red Lion, contained in www.ukpubfinder.com Here we find a real time top 10 most viewed pubs. Great fun for the Google generation to sit back and watch the ‘ToL Where was I?’ wrestling to keep the Red Lion in top berth as more competitors had a vitual reality Sunday pint at the Red Lion web site

Another week, where was I?, was in deepest Wales, hunting waterfalls. The Welsh language speakers had a distinct advantage for at least thirty seconds. Google soon showed that the University of Wales has a web Welsh Dictionary! Rhaeadr is one of three words for waterfall, while Pistyll has a spout. You need a large scale map 1:25000 scale. Easiest way, with minimum typing, is by clicking. Google os map>click Get a Map>click pink circle ‘I want a map now’ It is very easy to get disorientated, so on map of UK, use mouse to move crosshairs and click to centre and zoom in, and then at least you know you are in Wales and not Scotland. What a miserably little thumb-nail of a map O.S. give us when they use aerial photos of our great copyright garden designs!

Next week where was I had us on the North Norfolk Coast gathering cockles, What are the cockles called? Why Stewkey Blues. But I also found they were called Stiffkey cockle pram dinghies. Are the sturdy double-enders still made there? I was lost for the next couple of hours in tan and red sailed green hulled traditional boats, and superb watercolours.

Google is a great leap forward in knowledge tools. Prince Charles was advocating timelines to anchor knowledge some years ago at Educational Summer camps. BBC have had a stab but it is not great, and NMM were trying Excel. but a great deal more development work is required on templates to meet the essential needs of fast access for we cutting edge users such as Where was I? All research is but a problem solving game. Some web sites ask Gran to read over 100 paragraphs of conditions, every time before use, in case of modification. Perhaps H.M. could ask the P.M., just what is a deep link or a frame. I doubt if millions know. (Google wiki)

[Gut Liam]

Google:
timesonline Somali Pirates

Blog in eight words or less, three are enough:
Splice the Mainbrace!

[Gut Liam]

SIMPLE EXPLORATION. Discover and knowledge is only a click away on a Wiki blue font. Plot a virtual cruise, then use Wiki for local knowledge and global implications, Google images for sights, and Google map satellite to zoom in for pirate ships and whales. One day satellite might upgrade to a webcam, and views of boarding parties from the stalls. Or zooming in past single pixels to find behind some a virtual world.

Google input: Wiki “Arctic Ocean” for background. Click blue font “Arctic” for useful links

Wiki “ Arctic Circle”; then click blue font “ tidal forces” Too heavy? Then try National Trust Woolsthorpe Manor, and apples.

Wiki “North West passage, read “McClure”, enlarge map by clicking on doublebox icon.
What islands are top middle of map?

Wiki” Queen Elizabeth Islands” click blue font “William Perry”, read bacteria in tinned meat ( did lead poisoning or bacteria kill Franklin’s crew? )

Return to wiki”QEI” click list of islands of Canada, for brief on next landfall.

Proceed on next passage of virtual voyage. Wiki Arctic “fauna and flora”, Arctic Tern, geology, climate change and click discoveries in blue font. How was Lady Franklin’s needlework instrumental in the the discovery of the North West Passage? And a trillion more.

[Gut Liam]

ADVENTURE, EXPLORATION, DISCOVERY via google.
Perhaps H.M. might try a warm virtual Royal Yacht circumnavigation above the Arctic Circle, advised by other Family Members, starting from home waters of the Western Isles. Climate change would need study to determine when it may be possible to pass north of Greenland, and through the NW and NE passages. Google satellite map of Kap Morris Jessup would be helpful. Routes taken by past Explorers would be useful, McClure Strait is a name to conjure with. It would make a great Christmas TV broadcast “Where was I ?”
Would there be an Olympic spirit co-operation of all Countries on the route to supply video for an International film of what may well be the motorway of the 21st Century, long after we have crossed the great divide? The World gets smaller and knowledge gets greater with every passing day, co-operation is essential.

[Gut Liam]

ADVENTURE, EXPLORATION, DISCOVERY via google.
Perhaps H.M. might try a warm virtual Royal Yacht circumnavigation above the Arctic Circle, advised by other Family Members, starting from home waters of the Western Isles. Climate change would need study to determine when it may be possible to pass north of Greenland, and through the NW and NE passages. Google satellite map of Kap Morris Jessup would be helpful. Routes taken by past Explorers would be useful, McClure Strait is a name to conjure with. It would make a great Christmas TV broadcast “Where was I ?”
Would there be an Olympic spirit co-operation of all Countries on the route to supply video for an International film of what may well be the motorway of the 21st Century, long after we have crossed the great divide? The World gets smaller and knowledge gets greater with every passing day, co-operation is essential.

[Gut Liam]

Her Majesty’s Google. GOOGLE SUPER SIX.
With the password of the Royal Navy, “ Long to Reign over us”
the reply could well be, “ For long life learning”, and for us with Google super six, it has never been so easy. It requires a seed corn, e.g. Timesonline headline, ‘ Wikipedia random article,’ or a specific Google search, e.g. ‘Queen Victoria’. Then select an article from the millions available, perhaps top article or ‘lucky’. Any blue word or phrase provides the parameter for the next Google search, and repeat for six. The object is to open up new fields of topical interest and knowledge.
For example, if briefed with Google super six ‘Queen Victoria’ seed corn before perhaps the P.M. discussed the Bank Rescue package of £2 Trillion, did H.M. mention the Operation Bernard inflation objective? When H.M. met the American Ambassador to urge across the pond co-operation, did H.M. mention Morrison’s Cemetery at Macau, where relations of Churchill & Adams are buried in common cause in a foreign field together?
But how can a Queen Mother pass on her vast knowledge of fishing flies, or the present Queen preserve great knowledge for new Prime Ministers, or Google hand on the Skewes number of knowledge to which each and everyone has provided just a little?
How can we access that knowledge, is access a black swan event ?