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Google co-founder lauds Israeli innovation in tech, environment
By Lior Kodner, Haaretz Correspondent and Haaretz Service
Tags: Israel, Google, Sergey Brin

Google co-founder Sergey Brin on Thursday lauded Israeli innovations in technology and environmental efforts, saying Israel "takes our climate challenges very seriously."

Brin, visiting as a delegate to President Shimon Peres' Presidential Conference, told Haaretz that these challenges have "great geopolitcal ramifications on this country, in addition to environmental ones."

Details of the Presidential Conference available on Haaretz.com
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He noted that Israel's leading efforts in the field of sustainable energy, saying: "Obviously in Israel they need to innovate with water and things like that. I was really intrigued to see drip irrigation. I just realized that came out of Israel."

Brin gave particular attention to Israel's work in environmentally friendly transportation.

A prototype of the world's first fully electric car was demonstrated for the first time on Sunday in Tel Aviv, by Israeli entrepreneur Shai Agassi.

Developers hope the car will revolutionize transportation in the country and serve as a pilot for the rest of the world. If all goes as planned, Israel will be the first country to have electric cars on its highways in large numbers in the next few years.

Brin also spoke about new projects ongoing at Google, including the "huge range of efforts" being made on mobile technology and the patience needed in the field.

"I think it takes a while to devlop the technology, to devlop,
to educate advertisers about it," he said. "We have to bootstrap everything. our search based targeted ads took a number of yearsand people are expecting overnight that you work a miracle. It is a combination of technology, advertising networks, abd user expectations. All those things have to come together and that takes time," he said.

During his visit, Brin toured Jewish sites, including the Western Wall in the Old City of Jerusalem.

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      1.   Brin come and become our president replace Olmert the corrupted 14:33  |  Simon 15/05/08
      2.   dear comrades at Haaretz, you made a mistake 14:38  |  Leon Rosgarten 15/05/08
      3.   Brin`s brine 15:23  |  Miriam 15/05/08
      4.   #2 You are NOT the core readership! 15:29  |  Steve Ornstein 15/05/08
      5.   To be a Jew 16:18  |  HonestAbe 15/05/08
      6.   @3 Way to go Miriam 16:19  |  Mark B. 15/05/08
      7.   #2 Leon Rosgarten 16:40  |  Jan Vlaming 15/05/08
      8.   to #2 and 3 16:40  |  George 15/05/08
      9.   Honest Abe - Purpose of Life 17:10  |  Gideon 15/05/08
      10.   George, you are bragging 17:22  |  Mark B. 15/05/08
      11.   # 8 17:46  |  Ronnie 15/05/08
      12.   Miriam #3 17:51  |  Marc 15/05/08
      13.   #10 Mark 18:09  |  Marc 15/05/08
      14.   #2 Leon , good post , keep on . 18:13  |  TOMY 15/05/08
      15.   Gideon- Ethnicity and Idolatry 19:53  |  HonestAbe 15/05/08
      16.   Need help ASAP 20:19  |  Stranger 15/05/08
      17.   Jan Vlaming 21:03  |  Dan 15/05/08
      18.   google is anti-israeli 21:07  |  stella 15/05/08
      19.   To Jan Vlaming # 7http://haaretz.com/hasen/objects/pages/SendRes 21:18  |  Big Tex 15/05/08
      20.   But.... 22:40  |  Esther 15/05/08
      21.   Honest Abe - Purpose of Life 22:56  |  Gideon 15/05/08
      22.   #2 - Your use of the word `comrades` says it all :-))) 23:32  |  redmike 15/05/08
      23.   #14 - I liked his humor to - old commie stuff :-)) 23:34  |  redmike 15/05/08
      24.   Miriam # 3 23:43  |  Avrum 15/05/08
      25.   #20 - you give them undue credit .. 23:47  |  redmike 15/05/08
      26.   NO FUEL NO ELECTRICITY 01:27  |  TOBIA 16/05/08
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