1. A method of ranking candidate curation items, the method comprising: receiving a query; extracting a plurality of items from a plurality of curations; calculating, based on the query, a content similarity measurement for each of the extracted plurality of items; extracting, from each of the extracted plurality of items, a plurality of curation-specific features; calculating one or more curation-specific measurements for each of the extracted plurality of items based on the extracted plurality of curation-specific features, the one or more curation-specific measurements being different than the content similarity measurement; and ranking each of the extracted plurality of items based on both the content similarity measurement and the one or more curation-specific measurements to generate a plurality of curation item results.