Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Foursquare Hits 2 Billion Check-ins, 20 Million Users It’s April 16th … otherwise known in some circles as Foursquare Day. (Get it

Posted by neilpatel This post was originally in YouMoz , and was promoted to the main blog because it provides great value and interest to our community. The author’s views are entirely his or her own and may not reflect the views of SEOmoz, Inc. From Google’s Panda , Search Plus Your World and Venice updates, in the last year alone the SEO landscape has changed .

Google co-founder Sergey Brin has warned against the growing number of restrictions on the Internet arising from governments’ attempts to control communications and censor populations in nations such as China, as well as rivals Apple and Facebook.

YouTube is updating partner eligibility across 20 countries where the YouTube Partner Program has launched. Content creators in these countries can become partners by enabling their YouTube accounts, and monetizing at least one of their videos.

It’s April 16th … otherwise known in some circles as Foursquare Day. (Get it

I interviewed veteran Internet Marketer Lee Odden for his new book, Optimize: How to Attract and Engage More Customers by Integrating SEO, Social Media and Content Marketing. Lee and I discussed how his book is designed to give readers a practical approach to integrating search and social media optimization with content marketing to boost relevance, Follow SEJ on Twitter @sejournal

Google’s head of the webspam team, Matt Cutts, announced on Twitter that they have sent out new message notifications to 20,000 web sites that are hacked. Specifically, Google sent these messages to sites doing “weird redirects.” I’ve personally seen a spike in the number of… Please visit Search Engine Land for the full article

Microsoft announced the UK, France and Ireland search ad transition from Yahoo Search Ads to Microsoft adCenter ads will begin this Wednesday and should be 100% completed by the end of this month…

The new smartphone crawler that Google has launched works cleverly by caching mobile redirects and potentially mobile pages too, but letting the desktop page rankings carry the day.

The FCC has fined Google $25,000, claiming the search giant “deliberately impeded and delayed” their investigation into the 2010 collection of private user data through unsecured wi-fi networks during Street View mapping.