Comscore as well as Nielsen Netratings estimated Google’s U.S. search engine market at more than 60% in July. While the market research firms have come up with substantially different numbers for their July report, both agree that Google now runs more than three times the numbers of searches of its closest rival and more than twice the searches of Yahoo and Microsoft combined. Comscore and Nielsen Netratings posted market share numbers for Google at greater than 60% for the second time this year. However, while the April result could have been considered as a blip, the July result fits the pattern of Google chipping away market share from its rivals, bit by bit.

Nielsen Netratings estimates that Google was used for 60.2% or more than 4.8 billion of 8.0 billion searches started by U.S. users during the month of July. Comcast came up with a 61.9% share for Google and 7.3 billion searches of a total of a total of 11.8 billion. Both Yahoo and Microsoft keep losing ground: Nielsen puts the two companies at 17.4% and 11.9%, Comscore at 20.5% and 8.9%. Google’s market share gains appear to have accelerated in 2008, with much stronger growth than in previous years. According to Nielsen Netratings, Google had a market share of 46.2% in July 2005, 49.2% in July 2006 and 53.3% in July 2007. Over the past year, Google was able to increase its market share by almost seven percentage points – more than in any other 12-month period before.

Source: TG Daily

In partnership with Mozilla Labs, as part of the Labs’ browser concept series, the user experience gurus over at Adaptive Path are attempting to conceptualize a possible path of evolution for the future of the Mozilla web browser; code named Aurora.

Aurora presents a number of very interesting visual approches; however, it also — to me, highlights the current state of data overload that users experience with today’s web. Although this browser interface and its control mechanisms are fairly effective ways to navigate through massive amounts of data it almost seems to highlight a much larger problem.

Is our appetite for data on the web out growing the “Browser”?

I eagerly await the future installments of the Aurora videos. Especially Part 4, which would look to be a touch interface to the browser.

Keep in mind this is a colaborative effort. If any of this type of work interests you I would urge you to meet Mozilla Labs’ call for participation and weigh in on the conversation.

Tired of one too many reality TV shows? Have you been secretly longing for someone to create a Musical staring Doogie Houser M.D. as a Super Vilan?

What? Do you mean you haven’t?

Well its been done and it really is not all that horrible! Its actually surprisingly refreshing and an extremely well done production. Cheers to the team that made this happen, I cant wait to see more!

Check it out courtesy of Hulu:

Read more on the project over at: http://www.drhorrible.com/