SERP Interference Network and Its Applications in Search Advertising

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Autori principali: Jain, Purak, Appala, Sandeep
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author Jain, Purak
Appala, Sandeep
author_facet Jain, Purak
Appala, Sandeep
contents Search Engine marketing teams in the e-commerce industry manage global search engine traffic to their websites with the aim to optimize long-term profitability by delivering the best possible customer experience on Search Engine Results Pages (SERPs). In order to do so, they need to run continuous and rapid Search Marketing A/B tests to continuously evolve and improve their products. However, unlike typical e-commerce A/B tests that can randomize based on customer identification, their tests face the challenge of anonymized users on search engines. On the other hand, simply randomizing on products violates Stable Unit Treatment Value Assumption for most treatments of interest. In this work, we propose leveraging censored observational data to construct bipartite (Search Query to Product Ad or Text Ad) SERP interference networks. Using a novel weighting function, we create weighted projections to form unipartite graphs which can then be use to create clusters to randomized on. We demonstrate this experimental design's application in evaluating a new bidding algorithm for Paid Search. Additionally, we provide a blueprint of a novel system architecture utilizing SageMaker which enables polyglot programming to implement each component of the experimental framework.
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spellingShingle SERP Interference Network and Its Applications in Search Advertising
Jain, Purak
Appala, Sandeep
Information Retrieval
Methodology
H.3.3; I.2.6
Search Engine marketing teams in the e-commerce industry manage global search engine traffic to their websites with the aim to optimize long-term profitability by delivering the best possible customer experience on Search Engine Results Pages (SERPs). In order to do so, they need to run continuous and rapid Search Marketing A/B tests to continuously evolve and improve their products. However, unlike typical e-commerce A/B tests that can randomize based on customer identification, their tests face the challenge of anonymized users on search engines. On the other hand, simply randomizing on products violates Stable Unit Treatment Value Assumption for most treatments of interest. In this work, we propose leveraging censored observational data to construct bipartite (Search Query to Product Ad or Text Ad) SERP interference networks. Using a novel weighting function, we create weighted projections to form unipartite graphs which can then be use to create clusters to randomized on. We demonstrate this experimental design's application in evaluating a new bidding algorithm for Paid Search. Additionally, we provide a blueprint of a novel system architecture utilizing SageMaker which enables polyglot programming to implement each component of the experimental framework.
title SERP Interference Network and Its Applications in Search Advertising
topic Information Retrieval
Methodology
H.3.3; I.2.6
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.21598