The origin of the name Sohu

Sohu: It is very important to choose a good domain name for the initial portal, which is generally about 4 letters, and it should be well explained in combination with Chinese. Sohu, I think I borrowed from Yahoo; Sohu Sohu, the fox of search, is used to describe the cleverness of users who use Sohu because the fox is clever.

Sohu (NASDAQ: Sohu) is a sponsor of Internet content services for the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games, a leading new media, communication and mobile value-added service company in China, and the strongest Internet brand in the Chinese-speaking world. Sohu is a household name in China. At present, Sohu has more than 6,543.8+billion registered users, with 250 million daily page views. It is the first choice for Internet users in China. By the end of 2005, Sohu's annual income reached 900 million RMB.

1 995165438+1October1,Dr. Zhang Chaoyang returned to China from MIT. In August of the following year, based on venture capital, Sohu's predecessor "Aitexin Information Technology Co., Ltd." was established. 1February 1998, ATTEX launched Sohu, the first large-scale classified search engine in China was born, and the Sohu brand was born. "Going out by map and looking for Sohu on the Internet" Sohu thus opened the magical door for China netizens to contact the Internet world.

1999, Sohu launched the news and content channel, which laid the rudiment of a comprehensive portal and opened the Internet portal era in China. Because of his outstanding contribution to China's Internet communication and business practice, Mr. Zhang Chaoyang was named as one of the "50 Global Digital Heroes" by Time magazine, and has appeared on the cover of Fortune Forum and Asia Weekly successively.

On July 12, 2000, Sohu Company was officially listed on NASDAQ, and developed from a well-known domestic enterprise into an international brand. In 2000, Sohu acquired ChinaRen Alumni Record, the largest youth community in China, and established its position as the largest Chinese website in China. In the third quarter of 2002, Sohu Company achieved full profit in the domestic Internet industry for the first time, which was an epoch-making milestone in the development of Internet in China and promoted the overall popularity of Chinese concept stocks on Nasdaq. In June 2005, Sohu signed a contract to become a sponsor of Internet content services for the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games.

As the largest network asset in the Chinese-speaking world, Sohu portal matrix includes sohu.com, the leading portal in China, ChinaRen.com, the largest youth community in China, 17 173.com, the most influential real estate website in Beijing, and goodfeel.com.cn, the leading mobile WAP portal in China. Sogou.com, sogou, with the most advanced technology, is the leading map service website in China and the seven major websites of go2map.com Map, with a daily page view of 250 million.

At present, Sohu news and content channels have become the largest platform for mainstream people to obtain information; Sohu's huge community system, including Sohu community and ChinaRen community, is the main platform for young people's leisure and entertainment; Sogou has also become a new search engine with the latest technology. At present, Sohu has initially realized the ideal of "making the Internet an indispensable part of people's life in China" established at the beginning of its establishment.