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Keywords vs Intent: What's Changing?

4 May 2026 · 5 min read

A keyword compresses a need into a few tokens. Everything the buyer knows about their own constraints is thrown away at the point of search.

A conversation preserves it. Category, stage, requirement and objection arrive together, which means classification becomes possible: informational, discovery, research, comparison, purchase.

Intent classification is where conversational advertising budgets should be governed. Spend follows purchase stage rather than match type.

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