Amazon Technologies, Inc.

Mike Perkowitz

Andrew Bruce Dickinson

Richard Jeffrey Cole

Brian James Schuster

Llewllyn J Mason

Mark Jacobson

Raj K Kizhakkekalathil

Karen R Haberkorn

An ad system is described for providing ad selections in response to an ad presentation opportunity. The ad system can use multiple content providers to generate multiple sets of ad candidates. The content providers can apply different ad selection paradigms in generating their sets of ad candidates. The paradigms may act on different aspects of a context pertaining to the ad presentation opportunity. A chooser module and filtering module can cull the set of ad selections from among the plural sets of ad candidates. At least one content provider uses machine learning functionality in generating ad candidates, such as a Na&#xef;ve Bayesian approach, an affiliate similarity approach, etc. Various content providers also find application in a stand-alone mode.

Providing ad information using plural content providers

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Mike Perkowitz