NetValue is the first panel-based company covering the Chinese Internet industry that ranks web properties in a basket of indices to reflect effective reach.

SOHU.com ranked first in three out of six indices and took second place in the remaining three categories, winning handily NetValue's overall "General Ranking" of web properties. SOHU.com scored particularly strongly in stickiness and page views. In stickiness, defined by NetValue as Gross Duration Points, the SOHU.com web site gained top ranking with 2,183 points, outperforming the web site in second place by 16%. Separately, ChinaRen.com, the leading youth community web site recently acquired by SOHU.com, reached fourth place with 1,364 points. As for total number of page views the SOHU.com properties (www.sohu.com and www.chinaren.com ) web sites reached nearly double the total page views of the nearest competitor.

The NetValue Internet Survey Data of China, covering the month of October, is the company's first study of the Chinese Internet market. NetValue, a French company, is the only global survey company that measures all protocols with NetMeters based on TCP/IP level. The protocols measured are web, email, news, instant messaging, games, video/audio, chat, secure connection and file transfer. NetValue's global clients include leading Internet and media companies, retailers and banks, including Yahoo!, MSN, Excite, ZDNET , Sky.com, Cadbury, Salomon Smith Barney and BNP Paribas.

SOHU.com's leading ranking in the China portal industry is further solidified through the surveys of Internet audience measurement company Iamasia, in which SOHU.com properties accumulated the highest number of pageviews in the last recorded five weekly periods. The China rankings at Alexa.com, a subsidiary of Amazon.com, also show that the combined domains of SOHU.com and ChinaRen.com record the highest number of page views of all China-based web properties.

"We can send our advertising clients a strong message, based on these independent surveys, that SOHU.com is the best online advertising platform in China. These survey results show that commercial messages on SOHU.com are viewed by the highest number of visitors for the longest period of time", said Charles Zhang, president and CEO of SOHU.com.

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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