diff --git a/crate/README-short.txt b/crate/README-short.txt
index 890b234a4..f4f94f5fd 100644
--- a/crate/README-short.txt
+++ b/crate/README-short.txt
@@ -1 +1 @@
-Crate is a shared nothing, fully searchable, SQL database with the NoSQL goodies.
\ No newline at end of file
+Crate is an open source, highly scalable, shared-nothing distributed SQL database.
diff --git a/crate/content.md b/crate/content.md
index 116c9f411..a4846ef4f 100644
--- a/crate/content.md
+++ b/crate/content.md
@@ -39,7 +39,7 @@ To start the Crate cluster in containers distributed to three hosts without mult
           -Des.discovery.zen.minimum_master_nodes=2
 ```
 
-# The crate/crate Docker Image
+# The crate Docker Image
 
 To form a cluster from scratch, start a few instances of the Crate container as a background daemon: