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Here is the tool that helped us to find lots of music to download that was not that easy to find before.

We have already posted about musgle.com when it came out about a couple months ago, but this time we’d like share the user experience and confirm that it is indeed a powerful music search tool - well it has Google underneath, so there is no surprise after all :), and it does really have a very simple user interface.

One gotcha with search for free downloadable items is broken/false links that either do not work (any longer) or some websites make it seem like files can be freely downloaded (pretend to be FTP sites) where they are really not. But musgle (via Google) gives such a variety of links most of the time, then if it is not the first link that works (although it is almost always the first), then the second, third as max, will be it.

And yes, there are several other similar services out there in www, but musgle seems to have a much simpler interface, and more relevant search results, that it gets through Google, which we find more effective and appealing.

Ok, so I travel a lot. Sometimes to places where when you say “Internet” people believe in it and bow, but as in any other religion, they have never seen the subject of believing…

So today I finally got to my Gmail, after a long and exotic trip. Logged in, and what do I see? Instead of: “Hey Buddy, welcome back!”, it says you have 666 lucky e-mails in your inbox:

Did not really know if that is a good thing or a sign that I should not go through my mail
Well, do not worry, dear puzzled reader, this story has a Hollywoodish happy ending - I went through pretty much all my mail, fell in love with it and we lived happily ever after…

YouTube announced in November that they would be testing out encoding videos at higher resolutions (and with higher-quality audio encoding). Now it appears that a small sampling of uploaded videos can already be seen at their higher resolutions, simply by adding a little tag to the end of the video’s URL. To get a noticeable bump in resolution on some clips, add &fmt=6 to the end of the address line. The trick, according to YouTube watchers, seems to work primarily with newer videos, and bumps the resolution from 320×240 to 448×336. Add &fmt=18 to the end of the URL, and you might get an MP4-encoded version, with better audio and a 480×360 resolution. Update: Now the Better YouTube Firefox extension includes this feature.

original source - “Google Systems”
article source - “lifehacker.com”

    Just came home today and had a random thought “How does Digg make money?”. Almost any unanswered question that I have I usually bounce against my friend Google. Even if I know the answer, I like to go there to see if there if there is any additional info. However to search information about Digg is quite hard, due to the reason that most of the Google search queries match to some Digg article that somebody posted, and not the real info about Digg. So, today, Google did not answer my question.

Try to enter How does Digg make money in Google, and all you will see is “how to make money with Digg”, “10, 40, 250… ways to make money online” from Digg, “Digg effect” links, but no real answer to my question about Digg.

So here, I am thinking on my own…

There is a definite income from Google Adsense,  but it does not seem all that much according to sources it is only $250,000.00 per month, which I am sure is cigarrette money for Digg boys. (do they smoke?)

There is another annoying source that probably brings more than Google Adsense, since that big rectangular thing in the upper left corner of digg.com is blinking pretty hard every time I am on Digg. I am not sure how much that brings, but that is a definite “plus one” source.

Now ads on Digg even talk “Congratulations, you have chance to receive … two iPods nano” - it might come from that blinking thing (flash), but also might be something totally different, so I guess it also may be counted as an independent source.

When you click “more” on a story, you’ll see a banner from (http://clk.atdmt.com)  guys, hence “another one”.

How about that “http://media.fastclick.net” colorful banner on the right hand side of all the comments? “one more”.

At the very bottom of a Digg page there is “Advertise: You can buy advertising on Digg through our advertising partner Microsoft“, hence some of the above also goes to Microsoft. (just a note)

But my question is still unanswered, I still do not see the full picture. If all Digg’s revenue comes from blinking ads, it’s just boring - it is Digg after all, there should be some other cool hidden/not as obvious way they are getting that cash flow - don’t you think?

Search freely and directly downladable music e.g. mp3, wma, wav, etc.. Give it a try!

” Musgle originates from the idea of combining words Music and Google. The idea is simple yet very powerful. To see Musgle in action just type a song title, or the artist name, or both in a search bar and hit ‘Enter’ - you will be redirected to the Google page with relevant search results. Click on one of those results, and you will have a chance to directly download the song you are searching for - very smooth!

Although Musgle is not affiliated with Google, ALL its strength comes from it When searching for any kind of music (mp3, wma, wav, etc), Musgle calls Google for help by submitting a special search query to it, which is based on Advanced Google Search Operators. After Google does its hard work, it returns results with direct links to mp3, wma, wav, etc.. music files that can be downloaded directly with no hassle!

Good Luck! “