Sohu.com Inc. ( ) ( ) is a search engine company headquartered in Haidian District, Beijing, People’s Republic of China. This company and its subsidiaries offer advertising, a search engine, on-line multiplayer gaming and other services. For the fiscal year ended 31 December, 2007, Sohu.com Inc.'s revenues increased 41% to $188.9M. Net income increased 31% to $35M.

Allegations against Google

On April 6, 2007, Sohu made a request that Google stop providing its Google Pinyin pinyin Input Method Editor software for download because portions of Sohu's IME software, Sogou Pinyin, were allegedly copied in order to construct it. The detection of the alleged copyright infringement was found due to a suspicious error found in both IMEs, notably the translation of the pinyin "pinggong" which erroneously produces the actor and comedian Feng Gong. On April 9, 2007, Google's spokesman Cui Jin has admitted that the pinyin Google IME "was built leveraging some non-Google database resources."

2008 Olympic Games website

In November 2005, Sohu was selected to be the Official Internet Content Service Sponsor of the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games. Sohu was provided exclusive services to construct, operate and host the official Beijing Olympics website.

References

1. " Sohu.com." CNN Money. Retrieved on August 19, 2009.

External links

• Sohu Corp, corporate information site.
• Sohu Home page
• Sohu English, a portal for English learners.
• SoGou Sohu search engine, ]