Sohu fell out of the first echelon of Internet companies because Sohu missed the guidance of the Internet many times and remained complacent, so it was gradually replaced by other innovative Internet companies. Zhang Chaoyang, the founder of Sohu, chose a comfortable life when the Internet was booming, instead of continuing to make strategic plans for the development of Sohu.

Sohu. Com was founded by Zhang Chaoyang on 1998, and has a history of more than 20 years. In the ten years after the establishment of Sohu, Sohu represented a direction of Internet in China, and it was also an example for many small Internet companies to learn. At that time, Sohu's position and reputation in the circle were unmatched by Tencent and Alibaba. However, after that, Zhang Chaoyang chose to stand still and missed the development of the Internet one after another. Instead, I like leisure activities such as drinking tea and keeping healthy, which also led to the decline of Sohu, the former Internet giant.

Sohu focuses on the business of portal news information in the form of portal website. However, after that, the Internet changed as quickly as the direction of the mobile Internet, and social, e-commerce, take-away, express delivery and other outlets developed rapidly. Emerging Internet giants such as Tencent, Alibaba, Meituan and Express Company are also rising rapidly, but Zhang Chaoyang failed to grasp the development trend of the Internet, thus missing this wave.

But his main news information is still in his hands, but Zhang Chaoyang has not changed his original business. The news business has been replaced by Tencent News and Today's headlines, and his ace business Sina Weibo has also been replaced by Sohu Weibo. Therefore, Sohu gradually fell out of the first-line position of Internet development and fell to the second-line or even third-line level.