TECH BUZZ: The new social networking website, Ziggs.com, apparently allows users to get instant emails every time someone Googles them and checks out their profile. Sign up and you’ll find out where the searcher is located, what time the search occurred and what key words were used in the search to find you on Google. Damn, there goes anonymously stalking someone on the internet.

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1. Ziggs.com
2. Be Prepared To Be Creeped Out: Ziggs.com Lets You Know Who’s Googling You
3. Ziggs - Taken For A Test Drive
4. Know When Someone Searches for You Online with Ziggs

Google’s ad targeting for the name Amir: “Find Iran Sesy Girls at Great Prices”. My name is “Peretti” - I wonder if people see ads for “delicious pasta and meatballs” when they read my emails.

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In an update about cruel farming techniques used on pigs, Google News “accidentally” includes an image of Sarah Palin. Don’t you just love that the phrase, “slamming piglets on floors and leaving them still wriggling to die” immediately tags a picture of Palin in Google’s eyes?

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1. Even Google News thinks Sarah Palin is a pig

TECH BUZZ: T-Mobile has officially announced that the first phone running Google’s Android mobile operating system, the HTC Dream, will be unveiled in late September and in late October. It ain’t as purdy as the iPhone, but it sure does have a nifty keyboard.

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1. Official: First Android Phone on September 23rd
2. HTC Dream’s “Late October” Release Date
3. Live Google Android Demo

TECH BUZZ: After prematurely sending out a comic book introducing Google’s new open source web browser to a few bloggers, the search giant announced the launch of the beta version of Google Chrome, available today. Shortly after that little woopsie-daisy, Google went ahead and published the comic book for the masses in the interest of “information for everyone” anyways. So Googley of them!

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1. A Fresh Take On The Browser
2. Today There Was a Comic Book in My Mail
3. Google Chrome Comic Book
4. Ten Questions About Google Chrome
5. First Images of Google Chrome
6. Google Chrome, Google Browser
7. Starting From Scratch
8. Google Chrome on Wikipedia

The 45-second trailer for Seth MacFarlane’s Cavalcade of Cartoon Comedy is now live on YouTube! And, unsurprisingly, it looks a lot like Family Guy.

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1. Seth MacFarlane’s Cavalcade of Cartoon Comedy on BuzzFeed
2. Seth MacFarlane’s Cavalcade of Cartoon Comedy
3. Family Guy Creator Seth MacFarlane Unveils Web Toon

SCIENCE BUZZ: A new study using Google Earth has revealed that cows have an internal sixth sense, enabling them to align with Earth’s magnetic fields while they graze. As one Digg comment reminds us, next time you go camping, don’t forget your cow!

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1. Holy cow! Cattle Possess Magnetic Compass: Study
2. Google Earth Reveals Sixth Sense of Cattle, Deer
3. May Not Equal The Thrill Of Spotting Celebrities
4. Farmers Have Known For Centuries
5. Some Interesting Cow Related News
6. Meat Compass

Grainy shots of what might be the HTC Dream, or G1, the iPhone killer that’s a Google/Sidekick mash-up. Those of you who’ve been hoping the iPhone will finally release a version with a physical keyboard, your patience may have paid off — as long as you’re willing to keep waiting until September (if you’re a T-Mobile customer) or December (at the latest). The heavy breathing here is creepy.

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1. Unofficial Word on the Google Phone Release

Google’s Streetview service captures another little slice of humanity. This image comes to us from the depths of northern Australia, which means the guy in the picture probably didn’t just visit these ladies, though he’s now bound to them in internet shame.

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The Boring couple was just trying to live their boring life when Google Street View ruined everything. Google won the lawsuit and now millions of people have seen the Boring house. UPDATE: A reader emails to say that a Boring victory is still possible because a judge has not issued a “motion to dismiss.” The Boring story continues…developing…

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1. Boring House To Remain On Google Street View
2. Google Street View Car Gets A Ticket!
3. Less Boring: Google Streetview Hookers
4. Google Streetview: Original Controversy