Dr. Zhang exercised options to buy 27,344 shares on August 4, and options to buy 105,625 shares on August 9. In addition, Photon Group Limited, a company of which Dr. Zhang is a Director, purchased in the open market 50,000 shares on August 4, and 100,000 shares on August 8. In total, Dr. Zhang has increased his beneficial ownership of SOHU by 282, 969 shares.

Following these purchases Dr. Zhang's beneficial ownership in the Company has increased to 9,693,562 shares or 26.7% of all outstanding common stock, which includes 7,917,000 shares beneficially owned by Photon Group Limited.

"I have strong confidence in the future of SOHU as we celebrate the one-year anniversary of our search engine SoGou this month. I’m very excited to see that SoGou's technology has achieved tremendous progress in terms of music search, indexed page search, news search as well as mapping search. With its access to SOHU's massive user base, the growth of SoGou's traffic is impressive. I believe SOHU is well positioned to take advantage of the immense development potential for online search in China," said Charles Zhang, Chairman and CEO of SOHU.

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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.

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