Google to profile Gmail users to enable targeted ads

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Search giant promises ads will be 'as relevant and useful as possible'

Google is to update Gmail with a behavioural advertising feature that it said will make ads that appear on the service "as relevant and useful as possible". According to The Telegraph, the techn...

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