Sponsored search is one of the enabling technologies for today's Web search engines. It corresponds to matching and showing ads related to the user query on the search engine...
Sponsored search is a multi-billion dollar business that generates most of the revenue for search engines. Predicting the probability that users click on ads is crucial to sponsor...
Abstract. The standard business model in the sponsored search marketplace is to sell click-throughs to the advertisers. This involves running an auction that allocates advertisemen...
Sai-Ming Li, Mohammad Mahdian, Randolph Preston Mc...
The core task of sponsored search is to retrieve relevant ads for the user’s query. Ads can be retrieved either by exact match, when their bid term is identical to the query, or...
Michael Bendersky, Evgeniy Gabrilovich, Vanja Josi...
Most sponsored search auctions use the Generalized Second Price (GSP) rule. Given the GSP rule, they try to give an optimal allocation, an easy task when the only need is to alloca...
Esteban Feuerstein, Pablo Ariel Heiber, Matí...