Some updates to the text.

README.md

@@ -21,12 +21,12 @@ Please read <a href="CONTRIBUTING.md">```CONTRIBUTING.md```</a> for full details
 Because of GitHub size limits, to run this site, you will want to download the DBLP
 data by running ``make update-dblp`` (note that this will consume
 upwards of 19GiB of memory). To then rebuild the databases, just run
-``make``. Make sure you run it on a local web server (like apache) as different
-browsers behave diffrently otherwise.
+``make``. You can test it by running a local web server (e.g., ``python3 -m http.server``)
+and then connecting to [http://0.0.0.0:8000](http://0.0.0.0:8000).
 
 You will also need to install libxml2-utils (or whatever package
 includes xmllint on your distro), npm, typescript, closure-compiler, python-lxml, [pypy](http://doc.pypy.org/en/latest/install.html),
-and basex at a minimum via a command line like:
+and basex via a command line like:
 
 ``apt-get install libxml2-utils npm python-lxml basex; npm install -g typescript google-closure-compiler``
 
@@ -35,18 +35,21 @@ and basex at a minimum via a command line like:
 This site was developed primarily by and is maintained by [Emery
 Berger](https://emeryberger.com). It incorporates extensive feedback
 from too many folks to mention here, including many contributors who
-have helped to add and maintain faculty affiliations, home pages, etc.
+have helped to add and maintain faculty affiliations, home pages, and
+so on.
 
-This site is partially based on code and
-data originally collected by [Swarat
-Chaudhuri](https://www.cs.rice.edu/~sc40/) (Rice University). The
+This site was initially based on code and
+data collected by [Swarat
+Chaudhuri](https://www.cs.rice.edu/~sc40/) (Rice University), though
+it has evolved considerably since its inception. The
 original faculty affiliation dataset was constructed by [Papoutsaki et
 al.](http://cs.brown.edu/people/alexpap/faculty_dataset.html); since
-then, it has been extensively cleaned and updated. A previous ranking
+then, it has been extensively cleaned and updated by numerous
+contributors. A previous ranking
 also used DBLP and Brown's dataset for [ranking theoretical computer
 science](http://projects.csail.mit.edu/dnd/ranking/.).
 
-Contains information from [DBLP.org](http://dblp.org) which is made
+This site uses information from [DBLP.org](http://dblp.org) which is made
 available under the ODC Attribution License.
 
 ### License