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US8751520B1

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Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer pro grams encoded on a computer storage medium, for enhancing selecting relevant and diverse advertisements. In one aspect, a method includes receiving an initial query, selecting one or more additional queries relating to the initial query, including selecting additional queries having a greatest utility, identi fying one or more content items for each of the additional queries, the one or more content items forming a content block, and providing a content block and an associated addi tional query to a client device to be displayed along with search results associated with the initial query.

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