MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., June 19 (UPI) -- Search engine Google, based in California, added Persian to its Google Translate program, saying the language's addition was important, given events in Iran.
"We feel that launching Persian is particularly important now, given ongoing events in Iran," Franz Och, principal scientist for Google Translate, said on Google's Web site. "Like YouTube and other services, Google Translate is one more tool that Persian speakers can use to communicate directly to the world, and vice versa -- increasing everyone's access to information."