In sponsored search auctions advertisers typically pay a fixed amount per click that their advertisements receive. In particular, the advertiser and the publisher enter into a con...
Sponsored search auctions provide a marketplace where advertisers can bid for millions of advertising opportunities to promote their products. The main difficulty facing the adver...
We introduce an exploration scheme aimed at learning advertiser click-through rates in sponsored search auctions with minimal effect on advertiser incentives. The scheme preserves...
Jennifer Wortman, Yevgeniy Vorobeychik, Lihong Li,...
In pay-per click sponsored search auctions which are cur-
rently extensively used by search engines, the auction for
a keyword involves a certain number of advertisers (say k)
c...
We present a characterization of empirical price data from sponsored search auctions. We show that simple models drawing bid values independently from a fixed distribution can be...
Kuzman Ganchev, Alex Kulesza, Jinsong Tan, Ryan Ga...