Google's AI recommendations are designed to maximize platform revenue, not your return on ad spend. This article breaks down the structural conflict of interest behind broad match expansion, Performance Max opacity, and the Optimization Score, then explains what an independent execution layer trained on profitable ad spend actually changes about the equation.
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