That I apparently had opted into. But even aft uk email address list er making this change, I was still seeing more than a dozen terms when I expanded that one keyword phrase. I then figured that I could control this by changing the match type from "broad" to "exact". But even that didn't work. Finally I resorted to adding negative keywords to the ad group too. While that seemed to help, I'm still seeing additional terms tied to my keyword phrase.

Google should make this expended matching into an opt-in feature. The fact that Google is doing this broad-matching is unacceptable in my eyes. Here’s the kicker - even the conversion tracking data that we are seeing in our Web Analytics tool is skewed by this. Here's what I mean: When a user searches Google.com for "yellow widgets", and they click on our ad, we expect that Google would pass into our web analytics that there was a search on "yellow widgets".