It is the worst outage to date for Gmail, a browser-based E-mail service that has been growing at 40 per cent a year and gaining on its bigger rivals, Yahoo mail and Microsoft 's Hotmail.

这是Gmail有史以来最严重的宕机，它是一个基于浏览器的电子邮件服务，每年以40%的速度增长，增速超过了他的竞争对手雅虎mail和微软的Hotmail。