I haven’t checked TailRank for a few months. But I recently found some big changes in the service. I cannot tell whether these changes attract me now. I just log them for further investigation.

  1. Tailrank doesn’t try to recommend new post for individual. Rather they try to filter out good posts from you own subscriptions. The old local view url still works, but it’s missing from the homepage. So users are not encouraged to use them.
  2. Tailrank looks more like memeorandum now. It has cutted most of the features since the beginning. These feature includes the social view, blog recommendation, user promotion etc. More earlier, there’s even a wikipedia filter.
  3. The import feature is improved. Now users can import individual weblogs. But there’s no easy way for user to add weblogs from Tailrank homepage directly. Even after following the source link of the weblog, I didn’t find anything like an add button.

These are significant changes. There’re also many small ones as well. The speed of the service is still a problem.

Steve Rubel said Tailrank’s index is better than memeorandum. Maybe I should try to do some link search with Tailrank later.

update: Robert Scoble says, “Cause I don’t want more stuff coming at me. I have my 840+ feeds for that. I want a tool to see what bloggers are finding important and so far Memeorandum is better for me.” This seems that Tailrank is going the right way. They are trying to be a good filter, rather than bring more stuff to readers.