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Austin Qingfeng Lu

Keqing Liang

Shan Zhou

Wen Pu

Giorgio Paolo Martini

Linda Fayad

Sponsored and organic pieces of content are displayed in accordance with a blending model that is used to first identify a pattern of slots to which to assign either sponsored or organic pieces of content. This blending model is applied to a combination of both sponsored and non-sponsored pieces of content being considered for display to a user. This pattern only determines the slot assignments. The actual ranking of the pieces of content, and more particularly the actual ranking of the organic pieces of content, is determined by an ordering other than the ranking determined by the blending model, such as by using the original ordering of the second list. The pieces of content are then displayed in the order of this actual ranking, but in the slots indicated as having been assigned to be either sponsored or organic in the pattern determined by the blending model.

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