Bing has started dropping words from exact match terms and calling it under 'same search intent'. For example, they are dropping PURCHASE intent keywords like buy, order, online, ship, delivery and mapping it to the root words.

For example, the keyword 'buy sticky toffee pudding' will show for the search 'sticky toffee pudding' because they say the intent is the same. The data I have absolutely differs - people do not convert on the root word, or if they do, it's a rate that makes the ROAS exceptionally poor.

Also, Google does not do this. They do not drop words like this.

Here's the reply back from Bing that this is as intended.
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I have received a reply from our technical team. They have informed me that this behavior is expected from exact match keywords. I did push back several times to ensure this was accurate information as even I am surprised by this.

The team explained that Exact match can also match to search queries that are minor variations of the keyword. These are considered close variations. Close variant search queries can include singulars, plurals, abbreviations, misspellings, punctuation, accents, stemming, reordered words, synonyms, paraphrases, implied words, and same search intent. ?

In this particular case, the matches fall under 'same search intent'. People searching for 'sticky toffee pudding' on Bing, have the same search intent as 'buy sticky toffee pudding online': {endquote}

This needs to stop - this is not the way to get volume - it's causing the results of clients to degrade and we spend too much time having to chase negatives that we should never have to be adding.

Currently, there is a call extension present in Bing Ads. This being especially an advantage for mobile users, it might be an idea to work on a communication extension that is very easy accessible and approachable for tablet, mobile devices and pc users. In short, this is the idea: email extensions. They would appear in the ad, and the costumer can click on them, which could potentially lead him/her directly to Outlook or other email applications. In this email, the company's email address would be filled in already. This way, companies can control which ads show which email address, so the costumer would always contact the right person. As far as my research went, Google Adwords doesn't have such an extension at the moment.

Bing needs to fix the recent exact match keyword update. The new update essentially makes exact match keywords useless. With the new update, exact keywords can match to synonyms which does NOT allow advertisers to show the most relevant ad to someone searching on Bing.

For us, this has resulted in a lower return on investment and higher advertising spend.

For those not familiar, Bing's new update allows for reordering, stop/function word dropping, implied words/ same search intent, and synonyms (NEW). The update was designed to follow Googles new update for exact match keywords. Unfortunately, the parity is far from close.

Please remove the synonym addition to the exact match update and allow advertisers to show the most relevant ad to someone searching on Bing.