diff --git a/README.rst b/README.rst
index 7e5dd173f..bf043e1ab 100644
--- a/README.rst
+++ b/README.rst
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ Scrapy
 Overview
 ========
 
-Scrapy is a fast high-level screen scraping and web crawling framework, used to
+Scrapy is a fast high-level web crawling and screen scraping framework, used to
 crawl websites and extract structured data from their pages. It can be used for
 a wide range of purposes, from data mining to monitoring and automated testing.
 
diff --git a/debian/control b/debian/control
index 4be62895f..c3dae341e 100644
--- a/debian/control
+++ b/debian/control
@@ -13,8 +13,8 @@ Depends: ${python:Depends}, python-lxml, python-twisted, python-openssl,
 Recommends: python-setuptools
 Conflicts: python-scrapy, scrapy, scrapy-0.11
 Provides: python-scrapy, scrapy
-Description: Python web crawling and scraping framework
- Scrapy is a fast high-level screen scraping and web crawling framework, 
+Description: Python web crawling and screen scraping framework
+ Scrapy is a fast high-level web crawling and screen scraping framework, 
  used to crawl websites and extract structured data from their pages. 
  It can be used for a wide range of purposes, from data mining to 
  monitoring and automated testing.
diff --git a/scrapy/__init__.py b/scrapy/__init__.py
index 10e9091b6..d60b239a0 100644
--- a/scrapy/__init__.py
+++ b/scrapy/__init__.py
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 """
-Scrapy - a screen scraping framework written in Python
+Scrapy - a web crawling and screen scraping framework written for Python
 """
 
 __all__ = ['__version__', 'version_info', 'optional_features', 'twisted_version',
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index b5732cbc2..d463bccd9 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ setup(
     name='Scrapy',
     version=version,
     url='http://scrapy.org',
-    description='A high-level Python Screen Scraping framework',
+    description='A high-level Web Crawling and Screen Scraping framework',
     long_description=open('README.rst').read(),
     author='Scrapy developers',
     maintainer='Pablo Hoffman',