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Beijing, CHINA, December 18, 2008 -- SOHU.COM Inc. (Nasdaq: SOHU) (the "Company"), China's leading online media, communications, search, online games and mobile value-added services company, today announced that it was awarded the prize of "Best Investor Relations by a US-Listed Chinese Company" at the IR Magazine China Conference and Awards 2008 held in Beijing, China on December 16, 2008.
The IR Magazine Awards recognize achievement in the field of Investor Relations, and are based on an independent research survey of buy-side analysts, sell-side analysts and portfolio managers. This year's survey was expanded to include responses from the total universe of global investors covering Asian stocks, not just those based in Asia.
"Sohu.com is very proud to have received this important award in recognition for our Investor Relations program," said Dr. Charles Zhang, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Sohu.com. "We take our communications with the Street very seriously and we believe that this award further demonstrates our commitment to upholding the highest standard of investor communications. This reflects many years of hard work in development of our Investor Relations program."
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About Sohu.com
Sohu.com Inc. (Nasdaq: SOHU - News) is
China's premier online brand and is 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. The company operates two massive
multi-player online role-playing games, namely "Tian Long Ba Bu" and "Blade
Online," and a casual game platform. Sohu also offers wireless value-added
services such as news, information, music, ringtones and picture content sent
over mobile phones. Sohu.com, established by Dr. Charles Zhang, one of China's
Internet pioneers, is in its twelfth year of operation.
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Potential risks and uncertainties include, but are not limited to, the current
global financial and credit markets crisis and its potential impact on the
Chinese economy, the uncertain regulatory landscape in the People's Republic of
China, fluctuations in Sohu's quarterly operating results, Sohu's historical and
possible future losses and limited operating history, and the company's reliance
on online advertising sales, online games and wireless services (most wireless
revenues are collected from a few mobile network operators) for its revenues.
Further information regarding these and other risks is included in Sohu's annual
report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2007, and other filings with
the Securities and Exchange Commission.
Sohu.com Contact
Information
Shanshan Cai
Manager
Investor Relations and
Corporate Communications
Tel: +86 10 6272 6596
E-mail: ir@contact.sohu.com
http://corp.sohu.com