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Google catches royal wedding fever

Charles Arthur: Beside a fairytale doodle, Google has added a royal wedding easter egg its Street View package for central London addresses – for one day only
  
  

Royal wedding William and Kate Google Doodle
Royal Wedding of William and Kate: Google Doodle offers a fairytale scenario Photograph: guardian.co.uk

What?! No Google Doodle? Don't be silly – of course there is. Google's Doodle this Friday morning is a cartoon picture of Westminster Abbey, rendered in the happily-ever-after style that may be familiar from fairytales everywhere.

There's a link to let you watch the event on YouTube.

And even more enjoyably, if you use Google Maps and type an address in central London and then drag the "orange man" icon to get the Google Street View pictures, on landing it turns into a bride and groom. Awwww. (If you want to try it can we suggest SW1A 1AA for the postcode? Lovely location.)

Microsoft's Bing is also making an effort: its default page shows a picture of Buckingham Palace and a flag, with links to tweets (really rather slow-loading, we'd have to say), weather for the day and location, and "the latest news, pictures and gossip from the royal wedding on MSN".

If you're feeling grumpy and republican, meanwhile, we can confirm that WolframAlpha's search engine is showing absolutely nothing royal-related. Enjoy.

 

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