The present invention is directed towards systems and methods for
predicting a frequency with which an advertisement displayed in response
to a query will be selected. The method of the present invention
comprises receiving analytics data associated with a display of one or
more advertisements in response to one or more queries. One or more
features associated with the one or more advertisements displayed in
response to the one or more queries are identified. One or more functions
are generated for predicting a frequency with which a given advertisement
displayed in response to a query will be selected using the analytics
data and features associated with the one or more advertisements
displayed in response to the one or more queries.