Adwords Keyword Tool Changes

[sbshawaii]

Anyone notice more broad terms being included in their adwords keyword tool searches? It used to group related keywords at the top of the results and list more broad/related terms below. I just noticed them all mixed together...not sure if it's a glitch or one of their tweaks.

Anyone else notice this?

[Deltron Zero]

Arghh! So annoying! And most of the suggestions are totally unrelated, so I now have to sift through a bunch of junk to find the useful suggestions.

[sbshawaii]

Deltron...that's exactly how I feel. I don't need all these un-related one word keywords!

[AdWordsRep]

I just noticed them all mixed together...not sure if it's a glitch or one of their tweaks.

I will (unhappily) admit to being behind the curve on this one, but will look into it. My initial reaction based on what I see here is that it is an 'glitch' and not a 'tweak'.

Back again when I know more.

AWR

[AdWordsRep]

Back with an update.

A bit of asking around tells me that what is being reported here is a technical issues known to the engineering folks, and not an intentional change.

Needless to say, Engineering is at work to resolve things as quickly as possible.

I am sorry to say that I don't have an estimated time-to-resolution - and I will exercise my better judgment and not even guess.

I will, however, happily update this thread a couple of hours after I have first heard it is resolved.

In the meantime, please accept both my apology for the inconvenience, and my thanks in advance for your patience.

As an aside, I may have to go dig out one of my old posts about mining the the first hundred or so 'organic' search results for great 'related' keywords - which I still think is a very useful thing to do.

AWR

[Deltron Zero]

Thanks for the update AWR! Good to hear it's nothing permanent.

[Deltron Zero]

The problem seems to have been fixed. Hooray!

[AdWordsRep]

The problem seems to have been fixed. Hooray!

I sure do love to hear things like that.

To set reasonable expectations, though, I hear some finishing touches will take through early-to-mid next week. So if anyone sees anything thing odd, hang in there.

AWR