BEIJING, CHINA, March 15, 2005 - SOHU.COM Inc. (NASDAQ: SOHU), China's leading online media, communications, commerce and mobile value-added services company, today announced that it has filed an extension notification with the SEC for its Form 10-K to allow it additional time to complete the management’s assessment of internal controls over financial reporting in accordance with Section 404 of Sarbanes-Oxley and the rules of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board. The Company expects to be able to file its Form 10-K by March 31, 2005, and then utilize the allowed 45-day extension to file management's report on internal control for the fiscal year 2004 in an amended Form 10-K to be filed by April 30, 2005.

As of the date of this press release, the Company has identified no material adjustments to the unaudited financial results announced on February 7, 2005 for the quarter and year ended December 31, 2004 and no material weaknesses in the Company's internal controls over financial reporting. However, upon the completion of the assessments and audit by the Company and its independent auditors, material adjustments to the previously released unaudited financial results or material weaknesses in the Company's internal controls over financial reporting may be identified.

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About SOHU
SOHU.COM Inc. (NASDAQ: SOHU) is China's premier online brand and indispensable to the daily life of millions of Chinese who use the portal network for their news, search, e-mail, wireless messaging, instant messaging, browsing, games and shopping. SOHU has built one of the most comprehensive matrices of Chinese language web properties and proprietary search engines, consisting of the mass portal and leading online media destination www.sohu.com; interactive search engine www.sogou.com; the #1 online alumni club www.chinaren.com; #1 games information portal www.17173.com; top real estate website www.focus.cn; and wireless value-added services provider www.goodfeel.com.cn. This network of web properties offers the vast SOHU user community very broad choices regarding information, entertainment, communication and commerce.
SOHU corporate services consist of online advertising on its matrix of websites as well as paid listing and bidding listing on its in-house developed search directory and engine. SOHU also offers three types of consumer services. SOHU offers wireless value-added services such as news, information, ringtone and picture content sent over mobile phones. The company also operates two massively multi-player online role-playing games and manages a business-to-consumer e-commerce platform.

SOHU.COM, established by Dr. Charles Zhang, one of China's Internet pioneers, is in its ninth year of operation.