Sohu
Encyclopedia
Sohu.com, Inc. is a search engine
company headquartered in the Sohu.com Internet Plaza 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 December 31, 2007, Sohu.com Inc.'s revenues increased 41% to $188.9M. Net income increased 31% to $35M. Sohu was ranked as the world's 3rd and 12th fastest-growing company by Fortune in 2009 and 2010 respectively. As of August 2011, Sohu is currently the 44th overall in Alexa's internet rankings
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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."
Search engine
A search engine is an information retrieval system designed to help find information stored on a computer system. The search results are usually presented in a list and are commonly called hits. Search engines help to minimize the time required to find information and the amount of information...
company headquartered in the Sohu.com Internet Plaza in Haidian District, Beijing, People’s Republic of China. This company and its subsidiaries offer advertising, a search engine, on-line multiplayer gaming
Gambling
Gambling is the wagering of money or something of material value on an event with an uncertain outcome with the primary intent of winning additional money and/or material goods...
and other services. For the fiscal year ended December 31, 2007, Sohu.com Inc.'s revenues increased 41% to $188.9M. Net income increased 31% to $35M. Sohu was ranked as the world's 3rd and 12th fastest-growing company by Fortune in 2009 and 2010 respectively. As of August 2011, Sohu is currently the 44th overall in Alexa's internet rankings
Alexa Internet
Alexa Internet, Inc. is a California-based subsidiary company of Amazon.com that is known for its toolbar and Web site. Once installed, the toolbar collects data on browsing behavior which is transmitted to the Web site where it is stored and analyzed and is the basis for the company's Web traffic...
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Allegations against Google
On April 6, 2007, Sohu made a request that GoogleGoogle
Google Inc. is an American multinational public corporation invested in Internet search, cloud computing, and advertising technologies. Google hosts and develops a number of Internet-based services and products, and generates profit primarily from advertising through its AdWords program...
stop providing its Google Pinyin
Google Pinyin
Google Pinyin IME is an input method developed by Google China Labs. The tool was made publicly available on April 4, 2007.- Windows :, Google Pinyin is available for Windows XP, Windows Vista, and Windows 7. There are both 32-bit and 64-bit versions available.- Android :Google released a Pinyin...
pinyin
Pinyin
Pinyin is the official system to transcribe Chinese characters into the Roman alphabet in China, Malaysia, Singapore and Taiwan. It is also often used to teach Mandarin Chinese and spell Chinese names in foreign publications and used as an input method to enter Chinese characters into...
Input Method Editor
Input method editor
An input method is an operating system component or program that allows any data, such as keyboard strokes or mouse movements, to be received as input. In this way users can enter characters and symbols not found on their input devices...
software for download because portions of Sohu's IME software, Sogou Pinyin
Sogou Pinyin
Sogou Pinyin Method is a popular Chinese Pinyin input method editor developed by Sogou, a Chinese search engine.A Sohu announcement, released on June 5, 2009, indicated that Sogou Pinyin input software has been installed more than 80 million times since it was released three years ago, and Sogou...
, 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
Feng Gong
Feng Gong is a Chinese actor, xiangsheng performer, film director, and screenwriter from Tianjin, China. He is the great grandson of Feng Guozhang, a statesman and warlord of China during the early 20th century.- Partial filmography :...
. 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.External links
- Sohu Corp, corporate information site.
- Sohu Home page
- Sohu English, a portal for English learners.
- SoGou Sohu search engine