Disgruntled Google AdWords advertisers noticed a few days ago that Google automatically turned on “automatic matching” on their campaigns. The first reports seem to have come in at WebmasterWorld on Thursday.

Here is one post showing their distaste for such a finding:

It turned out to be a bug that Google fixed a couple of days later. Google issued this statement to concerned advertisers:

This was handled very well by Google, even though they seem to be spewing bugs out all over the place these days.

Forum discussion at WebmasterWorld.