Vital Pages and Geographic Location
Some international entities have multiple versions of their homepages for different languages or countries. A homepage should be rated Vital when:
• There is clear user intent to navigate to a specific website or webpage, and the landing page is exactly what the user is looking for.
• There are multiple versions of the official page, and the page seems right for users in the locale. Otherwise, please assign a rating based on utility for the user.
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Query and User Intent |
LP of the Result Block, Result Block, Utility Rating |
Description of the LP |
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[United Nations], French (FR) Go to the United Nations website. French users expect to go to the version of the website that is appropriate for French speaking users. |
Landing page link: LP
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Homepage of the French version of the United Nations website. The French version of the website is V for all French task locations. It is the right official page for French speaking users. |
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[United Nations], Russian (RU) Go to the United Nations website. Russian users expect to go to the version of the website that is appropriate for Russian-speaking users. |
Landing page link: LP
This result is not Vital. |
The United Nations website has six versions of its website: Arabic, Japanese, English, French, Russian, and Spanish. This page is a "choose your language" page. The
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[un.org], Russian (RU) Go to un.org. |
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"Choose your language" page on the United Nations website. Since the LP is the page "asked for" in the query, it is V, even though a Russian version of the United Nations website exists. |
