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Not all the "optimizers" behind the Google Ads dashboard are as advanced as you might imagine.

One notable one only ran once a day, and simply used data from your account to adjust other things in your account. And it used a crude algorithm to do so.

You literally could do better with a shell script running hourly after reading a couple of papers on the multi-armed bandit problem.




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