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Through crawling, analyzing, indexing, and anti-dead link functions, Sogou v3.0 delivers search engine with database of 10 billion retrieved Chinese language pages. It allows daily update rate of 500 million pages, while also completing most crawling, analysis, and indexing processes of important web pages as fast as 1 minute. Analysis capability minimizes repetitive information links and effectively ranks search results, providing users with relevant and accurate web pages.
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Sohu.com Launches Newly Upgraded Sogou Version 3.0 on January 1, 2007
Sogou 3.0 to Offer Improved Quality of Search with Expanded Database Capacity, Faster Updating Speed, and Higher Relevancy
BEIJING, CHINA, Jan. 3 /- Sohu.com Inc. (NASDAQ:SOHU), China's leading online media, search, and mobile value-added services company, announced the launch of Sogou 3.0 on January 1st, a new product upgrade version for Sohu's proprietary search engine, Sogou.
Since Sogou's initial launch on August 2004, the Company has successfully launched three upgraded versions, Sogou 2.0, 2.5 and now 3.0, which resulted in improved search capabilities by expanding Sogou's database capacity, increasing the speed for updating and listing higher relevancy search results making Sogou one of the best Chinese search engines.
Through increased server utilization and upgraded crawling, analyzing, indexing, and anti-dead link functions, the newly upgraded Sogou is the first search engine to reach a database of 10 billion retrieved Chinese language pages.
Sogou 3.0's advanced technology also significantly increases page crawling speed. This improved capability allows a daily update of 500 million pages, while also completing most of the crawling, analysis and indexing process of important updated web pages as fast as within only one minute. As a result, Sogou can offer Internet users the most updated news of the day via webpage search.
In addition, Sogou 3.0 further improved analysis capability to minimize dead links and repetitive information links, and rank the search results more effectively, thus providing users with more relevant and accurate web pages.
Charles Zhang, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Sohu.com, commented, "With the rapid growth of the Internet in China, information today is increasing at an explosive speed. Library size, updating speed and relevancy have become key metrics in measuring the success of a search engine. With the launch of Sogou 3.0, we are confident that we have vastly improved in all these areas. We have continued to reinvest in research and development and believe that commitment to our search product is making Sogou the search engine of choice for Chinese users."
Sogou 3.0 will continue to integrate the content strength of Sohu's comprehensive Internet platform and its community based product offerings, from which the Company is able to gain knowledge of users' online habits and interests, thus maximizing the overall search experience for all Sohu users. This is a unique advantage for Sohu to leverage its success as a premier Internet portal in operating a successful search engine and becoming the best search engine in China by providing the optimal comprehensive online experience to Chinese Internet users.
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 17173.com ; the top real estate website 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 a massively multi-player online role-playing games and a casual game platform. Sohu.com, established by Dr. Charles Zhang, one of China's Internet pioneers, is in its tenth year of operation.
CONTACT: Jessica Zhang, Senior Manager, Investor Relations and Corporate Communications of Sohu.com, +86-10-6272-6596, ir@contact.sohu.com
Web site: http://corp.sohu.com/
