The mountaineering project, which is due to take place from July 17 to 26, is organized jointly with the China Children's Fund, the Miss World Organization, and the Tibet Culture and Economic Communication Center. The mountaineering team has been nicknamed the "Beauty and Beast" -team for its star-studded makeup, which includes SOHU Chairman and CEO Charles Zhang and other well-known Chinese entrepreneurs and movie stars, among them Shi Wang, Chairman of the real estate company China Vanke Co., Ltd, Zhiwei Zeng, a famous movie star and Na Yu, former supermodel, as well as the Peruvian-born winner of the 54th Miss World Contest, Maria Julia Mantilla Garcia. SoGou, which means ‘Search Dog’ in Chinese, sponsors the expedition to the 6,026-metre high namesake mountain with which it shares its name, as QiZi means ‘Dog Mountain’ in the Tibetan language.

"SOHU is pleased to participate in this charity cause and we hope this expedition will raise awareness of the support Tibetan children need to get a strong start in life. As for SoGou, this climbing expedition is coming to symbolize the rapid upward progress in search traffic that our nearly one-year-old search engine is making, which is the key objective for our search business this year. In the past six months alone our search traffic has tripled," said Charles Zhang, Chairman and CEO of SOHU, and an experienced mountain climber.

SoGou's Search engine, with a massive online database of one billion Chinese indexed web pages, is showing strong growth in usage by Chinese netizens since its launch in August 2004. According to Chinalabs.com, SoGou now ranks second place in daily unique visitors among all China's search engines, while the website www.sogou.com has moved up to 20th place on the top 100 simplified Chinese language websites on www.alexa.com, an Amazon.com company.

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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; leading online mapping service provider www.go2map.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.

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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