If you search for “kids clothing”, when it goes to pull ads to put above the results, it fuzzes the search phrase for synonyms. So for example if TJ Maxx has purchased ads for “kidswear”, that’s a semantic match, so they’ll show the TJ Maxx ads even though it’s not one of the exact keywords they picked.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37802116
If you search for “kids clothing”, when it goes to pull ads to put above the results, it fuzzes the search phrase for synonyms. So for example if TJ Maxx has purchased ads for “kidswear”, that’s a semantic match, so they’ll show the TJ Maxx ads even though it’s not one of the exact keywords they picked.