Google & facebook ALSO Lends A Helping Hand, Quickly Adds Persian Translators

Google and Facebook have launched Persian versions to their capabilities. Both Google and facebook have acknowledged that this quick upgrade is done in order to help Iranian people in their on going online war(more of it here) against the government.

Google has added a Persian (also called Farsi) translator to its Google Translator. However Google says in its blog that “ As with all machine translation, it’s not perfect yet” and is “working hard to improve it for the additional 40 languages available via Google Translate”. It has also asked users to contribute to make it better.

In a very similar fashion Facebook rolled out Persian version (beta) of it site. If the browser is set to Persian then face book will automatically come in Persian or you can change your language to Persian in the “Language” tab of “My Accounts”. Acknowledging the contribution of more than 400 Persian speakers they have requested for further help to improve the Persian version.