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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 21, 2017
Filed:
Dec. 29, 2016
Google Inc., Mountain View, CA (US);
Luuk van Dijk, Zurich, CH;
Jeffrey D. Oldham, San Jose, CA (US);
Hartmut Maennel, Zurich, CH;
Krzysztof Duleba, Zurich, CH;
Zoltan Szamonek, Zurich, CH;
Fiona Herring, London, GB;
Aileen Tang, Mountain View, CA (US);
Google Inc., Mountain View, CA (US);
Abstract
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for improving geographic targeting of digital content. In some implementations, a targeting request that identifies a target geographic region is received. Groups of geographic regions that each include the target geographic region and at least another geographic region are identified. Combined targeting accuracies are computed for the groups of geographic regions. One or more of the groups of geographic regions are selected based on their combined targeting accuracies being higher than a targeting accuracy for the target geographic region. Data describing the selected one or more groups of geographic regions is provided for output in response to the targeting request.