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Task Description

Website description can help the user to understand what the website is about, what content is provided by this website.
For example, if a user is browsing a website, he/she may want to get a quick idea about what this website is mainly about.
In this task, we will give you a webpage, and some information related to it (The red box in the picture below), including its
name and description for the website hosting this page. You can find information about the website by looking through
main content in the website, search the website and find introduction about this site from wikipedia or some other page, or
try to find "about us" page which will contain some introduction about this website or the company for this site. Please
select the proper rating based on the guideline below. When in doubt, please use common sense.

Examples
Good case

Choose ‘Good’ if the description is an introduction for the company that own this website, or if the description is for what
website is about, or telling about the dominant entity that the whole website is for. Some Good samples like

website name description


booking.com Booking.com Booking.com is a Dutch online travel agency for lodging reservations & other travel products, and
a subsidiary of Booking Holdings. It is headquartered in Amsterdam.
bestbuy.com Best Buy Best Buy Co., Inc. is an American multinational consumer electronics retailer headquartered in
Richfield, Minnesota. Originally founded by Richard M. Schulze and James Wheeler in 1966 as an
audio specialty store called Sound of Music, it was rebranded under its current name with an
emphasis on consumer electronics in 1983.
yonkersny.gov Yonkers Yonkers (/ˈjɒŋkərz/) is a city in Westchester County, New York, United States. Developed along
the Hudson River, it is the fourth most populous city in the state of New York, after New York City,
Buffalo, and Rochester.
kent.edu Kent State University Kent State is a public research university located in northeast Ohio with more than 257,000
alumni worldwide!
pharmacy.amazon.co pharmacy.amazon.co Amazon Pay is an online payments processing service owned by Amazon. Launched in 2007,
m m Amazon Pay uses the consumer base of Amazon.com and focuses on giving users the option to
pay with their Amazon accounts on external merchant websites.
Images.google.com Images.google.com Google Images (previously Google Image Search) is a search engine owned by Google that allows
users to search the World Wide Web for images. It was introduced on July 12, 2001 due to a
demand for pictures of the Green Versace dress of Jennifer Lopez worn in February 2000. In 2011,
reverse image search functionality was added.
mta.maryland.gov mta.maryland.gov The Maryland Transit Administration provides the primary public bus service for the Baltimore
metropolitan area and commuter bus service in other parts of the state of Maryland.

books.google.com books.google.com Google LLC is an American multinational technology company that specializes in Internet-related
services and products, which include online advertising technologies, a search engine, cloud
computing, software, and hardware. It is considered one of the big four Internet stocks along with
Amazon, Facebook, and Apple.
Bad case

Choose ‘Bad’ if the description fails any the above conditions. e.g. the description is not about this website. Or the
description cannot help the user to understand what this website is about or the description is NOT in the same language
as the web page.

But please note that bad cases may contain multiple types of problems. Here are some examples.

1. The description or name does not match the article.

website name description


delta.com Song Song, LLC was a low-cost air service within an airline brand owned and operated by Delta Air Lines from 2003 to 2006. All
Song flights were operated by Delta Air Lines. Song's main focus was on leisure traffic between the northeastern United
States and Florida, a market where it competed with JetBlue Airways. It also operated flights between Florida and the
West Coast, and from the Northeast to the West Coast.
bing.com Powers Powerset was an American company based in San Francisco, California, that, in 2006, was developing a natural language
et search engine for the Internet. On July 1, 2008, Powerset was acquired by Microsoft for an estimated $100 million.
baidu.com BIT Life BIT Life Sciences is a for profit meetings, incentives, conferencing, exhibitions company based in Dalian, China, that
Sciences specializes in arranging multiple scientific congresses that have been described as "predatory". The company is part of a
wave of organizations that have appeared in China in the past several years noted for arranging congresses with little
academic merit and with the primary aim of generating revenue rather than scientific knowledge sharing. Papers
submitted are usually accepted without revisions within 24 hours, and BIT has frequently been spoofed.
2. The description may only be a subcategory of the website or just relevant to the website.

website name description comment


google.com google.com Google Images (previously Google Image Search) is a search engine owned by Google The description is for
that allows users to search the World Wide Web for images. It was introduced on July "images.google.com",
12, 2001 due to a demand for pictures of the Green Versace dress of Jennifer Lopez instead of "google.com"
worn in February 2000. In 2011, reverse image search functionality was added.
maryland.go maryland.go The Maryland Department of Health is an agency of the government of Maryland The description is for "the
v v responsible for public health issues. The Department is headed by a Secretary who is a Maryland Department of
member of the Executive Council/Cabinet of the Governor of Maryland. Currently the Health", instead of "The
secretary is Dennis R. Schrader. Maryland"
umn.edu umn.edu The College of Science and Engineering (CSE) is one of the colleges of the University of The description is for "the
Minnesota in Minneapolis, Minnesota. On July 1, 2010, the college was officially College of Science and
renamed from the Institute of Technology (IT). It was created in 1935 by bringing Engineering (CSE) of UMN",
together the University’s programs in engineering, mining, architecture, and instead of "the UMN
chemistry. university".
And please pay attention to distinguish this situation from the last 4 good cases. In those 4 cases, although the first
three descriptions are targeting at a subcategory, the website is indeed the corresponding correct website. And the
description of the last good case is introducing the google company, which owns “google books”, so it is still good case.

3. The description looks like an advertisement

website name description


healthpartners.com HealthPartners Your health. Your partner. Great care and coverage – all in one place.
fictiondb.com FictionDB.com Your Guide to Fiction Books. Browse series, pseudonyms, synopses, and subgenres.
4. The description does not contain any valuable information and is not related to the website.

website name description


bankofamerica.com bankofamerica.com What would you like the power to do? For you and your family, your business
and your community.
In addition to the situation summarized above, there may be other bad cases, such as adult type or spam type description
information. When in double, please use common sense.

And if you really can’t distinguish whether the description is correct or you can’t find the relevant information on the
website, please select “skip”.
Page Not Found case

Private Content case

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