diff --git a/sys-apps/the_silver_searcher/the_silver_searcher-0.17.recipe b/sys-apps/the_silver_searcher/the_silver_searcher-0.17.recipe
index fbcf44fde..1d1cde3b4 100644
--- a/sys-apps/the_silver_searcher/the_silver_searcher-0.17.recipe
+++ b/sys-apps/the_silver_searcher/the_silver_searcher-0.17.recipe
@@ -1,5 +1,14 @@
 SUMMARY="A code-searching tool similar to ack, but faster."
-DESCRIPTION="A code-searching tool similar to ack, but faster."
+DESCRIPTION="
+A code-searching tool similar to ack, but faster.
+
+* It searches code about 3–5× faster than ack.
+* It ignores file patterns from your .gitignore and .hgignore.
+* If there are files in your source repo you don't want to search,
+  just add their patterns to a .agignore file.
+* Ag uses Pthreads to take advantage of multiple CPU cores and search
+  files in parallel.
+"
 HOMEPAGE="https://github.com/ggreer/the_silver_searcher/"
 SRC_URI="git+https://github.com/ggreer/the_silver_searcher.git#0.17"
 CHECKSUM_MD5=""