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2007
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Sponsored Search with Contexts

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Sponsored Search with Contexts
We examine a formal model of sponsored search in which advertisers can bid not only on search terms, but on search terms under specific contexts. A context is any auxiliary information that might accompany a search, and might include information that is factual, estimated or inferred. Natural examples of contexts include the zip code, gender, or “intentions” (such as researching a vacation) of the searcher. After introducing a natural probabilistic model for context-based auctions, we prove several theoretical results, including the fact that under rather general circumstances, the overall social welfare of the advertisers and auctioneer together can only increase when moving from standard to context-based mechanisms. In contrast, we also provide and discuss specific examples in which only one party (advertisers or auctioneer) benefit at the expense of the other in moving to context-based search, and we give extensive simulations contrasting standard and context-based mechanism...
Eyal Even-Dar, Michael J. Kearns, Jennifer Wortman
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Type Conference
Year 2007
Where WINE
Authors Eyal Even-Dar, Michael J. Kearns, Jennifer Wortman
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