Web publishers and blog owners have a new toy to play with: Facebook announced Monday that it has launched new “share” buttons with counters, much in the manner of Digg’s iconic buttons and the third-party TweetMeme app for Twitter sharing.
Plus, there’s more: Publishers installing Facebook share buttons can also get data back related to how many times that link has been shared, how many users have hit the thumbs-up “like” button or commented on shared versions of the story on Facebook, and how many people have clicked back to it …

A Reuters article reports Yahoo is still going to invest in search, at least until the Microsoft deal is done. Specifically, in real-time search by “mining” Twitter data. Let me quote a piece of this article:
Yahoo’s Prabhakar Raghavan, head of Yahoo Labs, said that the company could potentially “mine” messages from Twitter, the popular microblogging service, to offer Web surfers search results beyond those offered by Microsoft’s Bing.”I’ve always held that the interesting thing of Tweets is not necessarily searching them but mining them. So we could real-time mine them, …