Listened to TWiT 256: The Shirtless Page Turn netcast

• Netcast
• Innovation happening in smartphones that happened earlier with PCs, then Internet
• Consumers seem to want what is intuitive (touch) rather than what is fast (keyboard or mouse or other hardware)
• Google Search has to overcome flotsam created by search engine optimization, scraper sites, associated content (created by companies such as Demand Media)
• Funny Bing commercial 
• algorithms can be "gained"
• Facebook has real people (your "friends", people in your network) providing recommendations/Likes (aka search results).  These are the "curators"
• but how large is your circle of "friends" and how diverse are they?  Because people like people like them, what is truly new that you would learn from them?
• other social bookmarking services such as Delicious may be the answer