diff --git a/docs/bigquery-usage.rst b/docs/bigquery-usage.rst
index fb6fad893e2d..122ae3ecf05c 100644
--- a/docs/bigquery-usage.rst
+++ b/docs/bigquery-usage.rst
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ Authorization / Configuration
   your applications.
 
 - :class:`Client <gcloud.bigquery.client.Client>` objects hold both a ``project``
-  and an authenticated connection to the PubSub service.
+  and an authenticated connection to the BigQuery service.
 
 - The authentication credentials can be implicitly determined from the
   environment or directly via
diff --git a/gcloud/bigquery/connection.py b/gcloud/bigquery/connection.py
index e0ffe70f2139..6195c1a4b0e8 100644
--- a/gcloud/bigquery/connection.py
+++ b/gcloud/bigquery/connection.py
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@
 
 
 class Connection(base_connection.JSONConnection):
-    """A connection to Google Cloud Pubsub via the JSON REST API."""
+    """A connection to Google Cloud BigQuery via the JSON REST API."""
 
     API_BASE_URL = 'https://www.googleapis.com'
     """The base of the API call URL."""