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Google, the dominant Internet search company, is planning to raise the stakes in its intensifying competition with Yahoo and Mic

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问题     Google, the dominant Internet search company, is planning to raise the stakes in its intensifying competition with Yahoo and Microsoft by unveiling a new consumer-oriented e-mail service.
    The new service, to be named Gmail, is scheduled to be released on April 1, according to people involved with the plan. It will be "soft launched" in a manner that Google has followed with other features that it has added to its Web site, with little fanfare and presented initially as a long-running test.
    (46)E-mail has become a crucial weapon in the competition to win the loyalty of Internet users, who often turn to one or two Web sites as the foundation for their online activities.
    (47)MSN, from Microsoft, and Yahoo are preparing to attack Google’s role as the first place most people turn to conduct an Internet search.
    Google, which refused to comment on this latest move, is starting far behind Microsoft (34.4 million users, according to the Nielsen Net Ratings), AOL(31.8 million), and Yahoo(39.9 million). But Google, which is based in Mountain View, Calif., is planning to play on its information search strength to compete with the existing services.
    (48)Google will offer consumers better access to searching their own e-mail and could well up-set the industry balance by offering free access to services that previously were available only by paying a monthly subscription fee.
    (49)The standard industry practice is to offer e-mail services, providing only limited storage free and charging higher fees to users who want to preserve a larger number of e-mail messages for capabilities like online storage. Google, by contrast, is planning a service to be supported by advertising that will permit its users to store very large amounts of mail at no cost.
    (50)In recent weeks, Google has picked up the pace of updating and adding new features to its basic search service, as part of its effort to position itself as a strong business ready to sell shares to investors in what is expected to be the most popular initial public offering by a Silicon Valley company in years.
    Google has been closely watched in Silicon Valley and on Wall Street during the last year for any indication about its plans for an initial public stock offering. The company has steadfastly declined to respond to speculation.
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答案电子邮件已经在赢取互联网用户信任的竞争中成为至关重要的武器，互联网用户经常将一到两个网站作为他们上网活动的基地。
解析 本句是复合句，句子主干结构为E-mail has become a weapon。句中to win the loyalty of Internet users为不定式短语作competition的后置定语；who often turn to one or two Web sites as the foundation for their on-line activities是定语从句，修饰Internet users。本句中应注意定语从句的翻译，将先行词"互联网用户"重复翻译出来可以将句子断开，变成短句，这样符合中文表达习惯。
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