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AI Max for Search Campaigns: The 2026 Setup Guide (and What It Does to Your Bid Strategy)

AI Max is one toggle that changes four things inside a Search campaign. Here's the setting-by-setting setup I use, the controls most advertisers skip, when AI Max makes CPA worse, and how it interacts with Smart Bidding once the extra traffic starts arriving.

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