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@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@
 <head>
     <title data-localization="main_title">CryptPad: Zero Knowledge, Collaborative Real Time Editing</title>
     <meta content="text/html; charset=utf-8" http-equiv="content-type"/>
+    <meta name="description" content="CryptPad is an open-source browser-based suite of collaborative editors. It uses client-side encryption so that the server cannot read users' documents"/>
     <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1, maximum-scale=1, user-scalable=no">
     <link rel="icon" type="image/png" href="/customize/main-favicon.png" id="favicon"/>
     <script async data-bootload="/customize/template.js" data-main="/common/boot.js?ver=1.0" src="/bower_components/requirejs/require.js?ver=2.3.5"></script>
