Optimizing query rewrites for keyword-based advertising

  • Authors:
  • Azarakhsh Malekian;Chi-Chao Chang;Ravi Kumar;Grant Wang

  • Affiliations:
  • University of Maryland, College Park, MD, USA;Yahoo!, Sunnyvale, CA, USA;Yahoo! Research, Sunnyvale, CA, USA;Yahoo!, Sunnyvale, CA, USA

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 9th ACM conference on Electronic commerce
  • Year:
  • 2008

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Abstract

We consider the problem of query rewrites in the context of pay-per-click search advertising. Given a three-layer graph consisting of queries, query rewrites, and the corresponding ads that can be served for the rewrites, we formulate a family of graph covering problems whose goals are to suggest a subset of ads with the maximum benefit by suggesting rewrites for a given query. We obtain constant-factor approximation algorithms for these covering problems, under two versions of constraints and a realistic notion of ad benefit. We perform experiments on real data and show that our algorithms are capable of outperforming a competitive baseline algorithm in terms of the benefit of the rewrites.