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Detecting Online Commercial Intention
Web page searches display two levels of commercial intent: informational and transactional. This tool can detect customer intent to acquire information or to purchase products based on their search queries or recently visited URLs. For example, if a customer searches for "canon digital camera", it is likely that they want to purchase a canon digital camera; therefore, the online commercial intent is strong, with a confidence level larger than 0.5.

This tool can be used to find keywords that are commercial but have low ad coverage. From a SEM point of view, it is useful to find these keywords as they have low bid density (low price), but high commercial value. Similarly, for an advertizing engine, this can help increase ad relevancy by displaying fewer ads if a keyword has low online commercial intent.
 
 
 
For more information…
We have conducted an analysis reviewing the accuracy of the Query Commercial Intent algorithm, as verified by human evaluators. The results demonstrate a 90% accuracy rate in determining both commercial and non-commercial intent for a given list of query terms. Please refer to the study here for the rest of the findings.

Related publications
Detecting Online Commercial Intention (OCI)
Dai, H., Zhao, L., Nie, Z., Wen, J., Wang, L., and Li, Y. 2006. Detecting online commercial intention (OCI). In Proceedings of the 15th international Conference on World Wide Web (Edinburgh, Scotland, May 23 - 26, 2006). WWW'06. ACM Press, New York, NY, 829-837.
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Tool Input
Webpage(URL) 
Query
Result for:
http://www.bestbuy.com
Status
Probability
Commercial Intention
0.84

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