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The Gold Mine in Ads That Aren't on Google Health

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Google no doubt would like to help you live a long and healthy life. But let's be clear: the company's new medical records system is largely about advertising, especially ads by drug companies.

When announcing the long-delayed Google Health service at a convention of healthcare technologists in Orlando, Eric Schmidt, Google's chief executive, said that at first there would be no ads on the service.

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A Google spokesman said, however, that the company may well put ads on future versions of the service. But it doesn't even need to. Presumably parts of Google Health, like most everything Google does, will have a box that can be used to launch a Web search. The search results pages, of course, will have Google's standard ads.
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