Automatic flight management in an online marketplace
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1. A method for managing an advertising flight in a pay-for-placement marketplace among one or more advertisers and one or more searchers, the method comprising:
- maintaining a computer network-accessible database of advertiser search listings, each search listing including a bid amount, a search term and a network location identifier of an advertiser associated with the search listing, the bid amount corresponding to economic value given by the associated advertiser to an operator of the pay-for-placement marketplace when network locations of the associated advertiser are referred to a searcher in response to a database query from the searcher, search results produced from the database in response to the database query being displayable to the searcher in a rank according to the bid amounts of the search listings of the search results;
receiving advertising flight parameters from an advertiser;
from time to time, reviewing bid amounts for specified advertiser search listings in the pay-for-placement marketplace; and
adjusting bid amounts of the specified advertiser search listings to achieve specified advertiser goals of the advertising flight parameters.
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Abstract
A database search system includes a database of search terms, each search term associated with a bid amount payable by an advertiser of a plurality of advertisers and a search engine responsive to search queries from searchers for searching the database. A flight management agent is responsive to advertiser-specified parameters for adjusting bid amounts of search listings to manage expenditures over a time interval.
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1. A method for managing an advertising flight in a pay-for-placement marketplace among one or more advertisers and one or more searchers, the method comprising:
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maintaining a computer network-accessible database of advertiser search listings, each search listing including a bid amount, a search term and a network location identifier of an advertiser associated with the search listing, the bid amount corresponding to economic value given by the associated advertiser to an operator of the pay-for-placement marketplace when network locations of the associated advertiser are referred to a searcher in response to a database query from the searcher, search results produced from the database in response to the database query being displayable to the searcher in a rank according to the bid amounts of the search listings of the search results;
receiving advertising flight parameters from an advertiser;
from time to time, reviewing bid amounts for specified advertiser search listings in the pay-for-placement marketplace; and
adjusting bid amounts of the specified advertiser search listings to achieve specified advertiser goals of the advertising flight parameters. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 15, 16, 17, 20, 21, 22, 23)
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14. A article of manufacture comprising:
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a computer readable data storage medium; and
computer program code recorded on the computer readable data storage medium for managing an advertising flight of an advertiser with a pay-for-placement marketplace, the pay-for-placement marketplace including a database of search listings associated with respective advertisers, each search listing including a search term, each search term associated with a bid amount payable by an advertiser of a plurality of advertisers when the search listing including the search term is referred to a searcher in response to a database query from the searcher, the search listing being displayable with other search listings in a rank according to the associated bid amounts of the search listing and the other search listings, the computer program code operative to access search listings of the advertiser to vary the bid amounts for specified search terms in accordance with advertiser goals for the advertising flight. - View Dependent Claims (18, 19)
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24. A database search system in a pay for placement marketplace, the database search system comprising:
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a database of search listings, each search listing including a search term, each search term associated with a bid amount payable by an advertiser of a plurality of advertisers when the search listing including the search term is referred to a searcher in response to a database query from the searcher, the search listing being displayable with other search listings in a rank according to the associated bid amounts of the search listing and the other search listings;
a search engine responsive to search queries received over a computer network from searchers for searching the database; and
a flight management agent responsive to advertiser-specified parameters for adjusting bid amounts of search listings to manage expenditures over a time interval. - View Dependent Claims (25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40)
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