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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Goode是大多数人首选的互联网搜索引擎，微软公司的MSN和雅虎正准备打击Google的地位。
解析 本句为复合句，句子主干结构是MSN and Yahoo are preparing to attack Goode’s role。介词短语as the first place作定语，修饰role；定语从句most people turn to conduct an Internet search修饰先行词place。句中turn to意为"求助于"；conduct意为"操作"，翻译这部分时注意省略，将the first place与后面的turn to conduct an Internet search组合译成"首选的互联网搜索引擎"。翻译时注意语序处理，因为通常英语重心在前，而汉语重心在后，这里可将句子语序颠倒过来，这样语句会更为通顺。
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