Ga-ga Google

Ga-ga Google
Product innovation and understanding of the Internet has made Google the king of the search domain (Google’s 4th Ace, BT, September 6). But its eyebrow-raising revenues is thanks to marketing whizkids like Nikesh Arora who have helped Google spot niche business opportunities and leverage them to the hilt.
Vinit Achyut, Delhi

Blame the government
The government’s lack of any clear-cut policy has contributed to the gas dispute involving the Ambani brothers (Ambani Feud: The Real Story, BT, August 23). The government kept shifting its stance on the issue of gas pricing. From maintaining that price should be market-determined, it came round to stating that it has an explicit role in approving sales price. Similarly, it did a U-turn on the issue of the MoU between the Ambani brothers. While it initially maintained it had nothing to do with “a private dispute”, it later went on to contest the Bombay High Court order and dubbed the MoU as illegal. It would be most unfortunate if all this vacillation leads to the government being denied its rightful share of the gas revenues.
P.R. Pillai, Delhi

The flap over cover
Since my college days, I’ve been a regular reader of your magazine and have been collecting its issues. But ever since you started coming out with “dual-flap” covers, it’s become difficult to preserve the issues as the copies get easily rumpled and lose their looks quickly.
Kunal Gupta

Murthy’s praise for Nilekani
In What Makes Nandan Ubercool (BT, August 9), when Narayana Murthy describes Nilekani as a clear thinker, a great conceptualiser and one of the brightest Infoscians, it does not sound hyperbolical coming from a man who is himself the rightful claimant of many of these qualities. When Murthy claims that there is none at Infosys to rival Nilekani’s extraordinary facility, he is probably excluding himself.
Dr. Dilip Joshi, Pune

Clarification
With reference to gas allocation to the Essar Group in Ambani Feud—The Real Story (BT, August 23), there was no intention to indicate that Essar was preferred over other consumers. The attempt was to illustrate the allocation policy laid down by the empowered group of ministers (EGOM).

The magic of Bill Gates
Microsoft Is Still About the Magic of Software (BT, August 23) offered a lively interaction with Bill Gates who professes to his dream of wanting to see a PC within everyone’s reach. Coming from Gates, wouldn’t it be more appropriate for him to dream of putting a tablet-sized PC in everybody’s palm?. Also, one would have loved to hear more from Gates about the configuration and features of the newly-launched Windows 7 and how different would it be from other operating systems around.
B. Rajasekaran, Bangalore