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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 06, 2014
Filed:
Aug. 15, 2012
Yu Zhang, Mountain View, CA (US);
Amin Charaniya, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Smita Hashim, Saratoga, CA (US);
Yu Zhang, Mountain View, CA (US);
Amin Charaniya, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Smita Hashim, Saratoga, CA (US);
Google Inc., Mountain View, CA (US);
Abstract
Described are example processes for providing content based on a size of a geographic area associated with the content. The example processes may include the following operations: determining, based at least in part on bids provided in an auction, candidate content items for output in response to an input query; obtaining geographic areas associated with the candidate content items; selecting a candidate content item having a smallest geographic area; and outputting the selected candidate content item in response to the input query.