Improves response time
Preserves precious bandwidth
Simplifies site management

BEIJING, CHINA, August 31, 2000 - SOHU.com (NASDAQ: SOHU), one of China's most popular Internet portals, today announced it has selected CacheFlow (NASDAQ: CFLO) to accelerate the performance of SOHU's Internet portal. By enhancing its infrastructure with CacheFlow, SOHU's users will experience faster access to any of its thirteen information channels covering news, sports, business and finance, real estate, IT, education, career, fashion and women, entertainment and shopping, music, games and travel. CacheFlow is the only supplier of professional Internet acceleration equipment in the world and the first to provide this functionality within a content delivery solution. SOHU.com is the first leading ICP in China to apply Cacheflow's caching solutions.

CacheFlow technology is unique due to its proprietary acceleration operating system (CacheOS) as well as multiple technology patents focused on enhancing browsing speed. By employing this technology, SOHU will be able to significantly increase its volume of visitors and provide the level of security needed by an industry-leading Internet portal. In addition, the unique technology will accelerate browsing speed, allowing SOHU.com to offer web users the fastest download speed and fastest response time in China, in order to improve the Internet experience for customers in country.

"We are excited to work with Sohu.com to speed web page response time," said Jackson Chang, Director of Great China of Cacheflow, "Sohu.com is the leading portal in China. To cooperate with Sohu.com, we will enable more customers to enjoy the convenience and quick browse our cutting-edge appliances bring. As the Internet would change the way we work, live, play and learn, we are pleased to help people enjoy their experience on network."

As a leading portal in China, SOHU.com attracts a large number of customers. SOHU.com currently posts 25 million page views per day, including more than 2.4 million page views on its front page, and has over 4.5 million registered users. By choosing CacheFlow's solution, SOHU can further improve its Internet download speed; improve bandwidth and usage, providing fast data access for SOHU's continually growing customer base.

"SOHU.com always looks for the best technical solution to improve its Internet services. Cacheflow's appliance approach and simplicity substantially reduces SOHU's total cost of ownership and improves our operational efficiency," said Xin Ye, Chief Technology Officer of SOHU.com. "Cacheflow's proven caching solutions allow SOHU.com to offer Chinese web-users best Internet experience, further strengthening its position as the leading Chinese Internet portal."

CacheFlow has rapidly expanded its Mainland China market. In a short period of just half a year, CacheFlow products have been widely deployed by 163 and 169 network in Shan'xi, Gansu, Yuannan, Zhejiang and Fujian Provinces and Shanghai municipality, which are China's government owned ISP. These Chinese ISP are using Cacheflow product to save their international bandwidth. Beside, the China Educational Network hereinafter called, CERNET, is using Cacheflow products to improve their response time, and increase performance. The China State Statistics Bureau has also become CacheFlow's important customer.

About CacheFlow Inc.
CacheFlow Inc. designs, manufactures, and markets Internet caching appliances. These easy-to-use appliances speed Web page response times, while saving network bandwidth. Because of these key benefits, caching appliances are becoming an integral component of the network infrastructure - much like routers and switches. Explosive growth is forecasted for the caching appliance market, with revenues projected to exceed $3 billion by 2003 (source: The Gartner Group). CacheFlow is publicly traded on the NASDAQ, under the symbol CFLO. Company partners include Akamai, Alcatel, CSC, EDS, Hewlett-Packard, Lucent, Real Networks, Secure Computing Websense and Westcon. CacheFlow is a global organization with offices throughout Asia, Europe, and North America. The company is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California and operates major R&D Centers in Redmond, WA and Waterloo, Ontario, Canada.

About SOHU.com
SOHU.com is the leading Internet portal in Mainland China with current daily page views exceeding 12 million. It provides navigation/search, news, sports, business and finance, real estate channel, entertainment, chat, email and e-commerce activities for a solid and wide base of visitors. Dr. Charles Zhang founded SOHU.com in 1997. Its investors include Intel, Dow Jones, IDG, the Morningside China Group, PCCW, Legend and Hikari. Its content partners include CNET, DOW Jones and dozens of local media organizations in China.

For further information:
Dahlia Wei
SOHU Investor Relations and Communications
Tel: +86 10 6272 6598
E-mail: ir@sohu-inc.com
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