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Last month, Google acknowledged Apple’s importance by releasing a beta version of Chrome for Mac.  New statistics show that Google sort of put Apple to shame, too, however, as Chrome passed Safari in terms of market share.

Firefox hit a new high point last month as it continues to enjoy a rise in popularity.  Although not yet at the nice, round number of 20 percent, the Web browser now has a market share of over 19 percent.

The numbers didn’t crunch very well for May’s US search engine market share figures at analysis firm Compete, as it seems they dramatically undercounted Yahoo’s slice.

MSN/Live made a respectable showing in the US search market too, driven by its Club Live service, and managed a year over year increase.

Several consecutive months of declines in US search market share per Compete’s measurements finally halted for Yahoo in April 2008.

Well over two-thirds of the US search market’s queries passed through the digestive tract of Google, while its next three closest competitors gave up share.

An across the board 5 percent drop in US search queries last month probably should be attributed to a naturally occurring phenomenon – fewer days in the month.

ComScore today released their numbers for December 2007 and Google took a bit of a slide. Here’s what happened in December:

All the press and the industry observers talked about last year was Facebook, which made it seem like MySpace was soooo 2006. Social networkers, though, must not have been paying too much attention.

According to data from Hitwise, MySpace pulled in 76 percent of US visits to social networking websites in 2007, and 95 percent of them were return visitors in December. This can be interpreted that not only is MySpace commanding the vast majority of the social networking market, but also inspires some pretty fierce loyalty.

Websites in the health & medical and the travel categories received substantial traffic driven to them from search engines in November 2007.

Google picked up more than 65 percent of the US search market in November 2007, while Yahoo, Microsoft, and Ask all ceded a few tenths of a percent each in share.

Time Warner’s sites including AOL saw a teensy drop in US search market share in October as well. Guess who gained?

For a while, it seemed like Google China was doing better – the company had partnered with Sina, bought a stake in Tianya, and received the Chinese government’s permission to provide content.  Now things don’t look so great – Baidu’s market share is up, and Google’s has gone down.

August figures for search engine share as recorded by Compete found Google with two-thirds of queries made during the month.

Search sites measured by comScore under their new qScore 2.0 methodology will benefit from the hosted and affiliated search traffic they send back to the main search engine. It’s a scenario that offers Google a heaping helping of share by comScore’s reckoning.

Session talkers at SES San Jose 2007 bounded around the topic of the search landscape: what’s popular, and who’s the most used among the major players in search.

When web services firm Compete stripped out the Club Live numbers from MSN/Live Search share, Microsoft still enjoyed a month to month gain in search.

By the raw numbers, comScore’s assessment of June’s search market share showed a 2.9 point rise for Microsoft, while Google, Yahoo, and Ask collectively lost 2.9 points. Yahoo said the reason for this isn’t a zero-sum calculation.