Curation is the New Search is the New Curation

You might find this item of interest: http://j.mp/icRgD0

In it, the author argues that Google's PageRank algorithm did away with curation as the underlying principle of search. Now, like any algorithm, it has been gamed, making it less relevant. The alternative is curation but this time by crowds (e.g. deli.co.us or trunk.ly).