BEIJING, CHINA, July 7, 2006 – Sohu.com Inc. (Nasdaq: SOHU), China's leading online media, search and mobile value-added services company, announced today that Sohu's Board of Directors has appointed Mary Ma to Sohu's audit committee, effective July 6, 2006, to fill a vacancy in the audit committee resulting from Tom Gurnee's not having stood for re-election at Sohu's annual meeting of stockholders held on June 9, 2006. Ms. Ma, who is an existing member of Sohu's Board of Directors, also holds the Executive Director, Senior Vice President, and Chief Financial Officer of Lenovo Group Limited.

On June 30, 2006, Sohu received a letter from Nasdaq's Listing Qualifications Department stating that, because of the vacancy in its audit committee, Sohu was not in compliance with Nasdaq's Marketplace Rule 4350(d)(2) regarding audit committee composition. On July 6, 2006, Sohu received a second letter from Nasdaq's Listing Qualifications Department stating that the Listing Qualifications Department had determined that, with the appointment of Ms. Ma to its audit committee, Sohu is in compliance with Rule 4350(d)(2).

About Sohu.com
Sohu.com Inc. (NASDAQ: SOHU) is China's premier online brand and indispensable to the daily life of millions of Chinese, providing a network of web properties and community based/web 2.0 products which offer the vast Sohu user community a broad array of choices regarding information, entertainment and communication. 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; #1 online alumni club www.chinaren.com; #1 games information portal www.17173.com; the top real estate website www.focus.cn; wireless value-added services provider www.goodfeel.com.cn; and leading online mapping service provider www.go2map.com.

Sohu corporate services consist of brand advertising on its matrix of websites as well as paid listing and bid listing on its in-house developed search directory and engines. Sohu also offers two types of consumer services. Sohu offers wireless value-added services such as news, information, music, ringtone and picture content sent over mobile phones. The company also operates two massively multi-player online role-playing games as well as a casual game platform. Sohu.com, established by Dr. Charles Zhang, one of China's Internet pioneers, is in its tenth year of operation.

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Sohu.com Contact Information
Jessica Zhang
Senior Manager
Investor Relations and Corporate Communications
Tel: +86 10 6272 6596
E-mail: ir@contact.sohu.com
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