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Google to launch online music service谷歌推出在线音乐服务 Google could launch a new online music service, which will be similar to a service recently started by A Inc.与亚马逊公司近期推出的在线云音乐服务相同，谷歌推出类似服务。The Wall Street Journal said Google is likely to announce the service at its annual Google I/O developers conference in San Francisco, adding that the service will operate in a testing mode initially and not be available to the public at large.华尔街日报称，谷歌极有可能在旧金山的2011年度I/O技术峰会上正式宣布推出该项服务。在初始阶段，谷歌云音乐服务将以测试模式运营，而不会向大多数美国公众开放。In April, Amazon unveiled a service that allows customers to store about 1,000 songs on its Web servers for free instead of their own hard drives and play them over an Internet connection directly from Web browsers.今年4月，亚马逊推出了一项服务，用户可在网络服务器上存储约1000首歌曲，并随时随地通过浏览器直接访问其存储的歌曲。The Journal said Google has not sought licenses from the four major recorded-music companies and the new feature is likely to include a system that functions much like a remote hard drive.谷歌尚未获得4家大型音乐唱片公司的授权，而新服务的特色功能就像远程硬盘操作系统。Users could listen to songs they have uploaded to the service in a streaming mode, but will not be able to download the files.用户享受的在线云音乐服务只提供在线听歌，但并不能下载文件。Earlier in the day, Google-owned YouTube said it will add more than 3,000 mainstream movies for users to rent from Monday.今天早些时候，谷歌还宣布其旗下的YouTube电影服务将会为用户提供超过3000部影片。从周一起，用户将可以在YouTube的电影服务中租赁这些公司的影片（目前仅针对美国网民）。