Since my search engine has expanded its scope to include blogs as well as primordial text documents, I’ve done some thinking about how to keep up with newer websites that actually grow and see updates. Otherwise, as the crawl goes on, it tends to find fewer and fewer interesting web pages, and as the interesting...

Losing Steve affected me more than it probably should have, given that I never met him or had any correspondence with him. But losing him was devastating — not just to my world, but the world. He was a sort of virtual father figure: I was always hoping that maybe Steve would notice something I did. We all wanted his...