Sohu.com vs Microsoft.com

Sohu, Inc. is a Chinese Internet organization located in the Sohu Internet Plaza in Haidian District, Beijing. Sohu platform offers advertising, a search engine, online multiplayer gaming and different programs. 

Sohu was established as Internet Technologies China (ITC) in 1996 by Charles Zhang after he bagged his PhD from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and received investment funding from friends he met there. The following year, Charles Zhang changed the name of ITC to Sohoo in respect to Yahoo! after meeting his fellow co-founder, Jerry Yang. The name was later changed to Sohu to separate it from the American company. 

Sohu.com search engine was in talks to be sold in July 2013 to Qihoo for around $1.4 billion. On September 17, 2013, it was later reported that Tencent has contributed $448 million for a minority share in Chinese search index Sogou.com, which later became a branch of Sohu, Inc. 

Sohu has been recorded on NASDAQ since 2000. In 2019, Sohu ranked as the 7th most visited webpage on the planet as indicated by the Alexa internet ranking site. Sohu's Sogou.com is a popular webisite in China now. The company also have different programs like (Sogou Pinyin), which is used for a great deal by lots of Chinese businessmen presently.

Microsoft Corporation is an American global technology company which headquarters is located at (Redmond,Washington, U.S). The platform creates, manufactures, support licenses, and sells computer softwares like customer gadgets, personal computers, and other related services. Its most popular software products are the Microsoft Windows line of operating systems, the Microsoft Office suite, the Internet Explorer and Edge internet browsers. Its flagship hardware products are the Xbox computer game consoles and the Microsoft Surface setup with touchscreen personal computers.

Microsoft ranked No. 21 in the 2020 Fortune 500 rankings of the largest United States companies by total revenue; it was the world's highest software creator by revenue as of 2016. It is considered as one of the Big Five companies in the U.S. information technology industry, along with Google, Apple, Amazon, and Facebook. 

Microsoft was established by Bill Gates and Paul Allen on April 4, 1975, to create and sell BASIC interpreters for the Altair 8800. It rose to dominate the personal computer operating system market with MS-DOS during the 1980s, followed by Microsoft Windows. The company's 1986 first sale of stock (IPO), and subsequent rise in its share price, created three billionaires and an estimated 12,000 millionaires among Microsoft workers. Since the 1990s, it has progressively differentiated from the operating system market and has made various corporate acquisitions as their largest being the acquisition of LinkedIn for $26.2 billion in December 2016, followed by their obtaining of Skype Technologies for $8.5 billion in May 2011. 

During 2015, Microsoft recorded market-dominant in the IBM PC compatible operating system market and the office programming suite market, despite the fact that it has lost most of the generally operating system market to Android. The organization additionally creates a wide scope of other customer and enterprise programming for desktops, laptops, tabs, gadgets, and servers, including Internet search (with Bing), the digital services (through MSN), mixed reality (HoloLens), cloud computing (Azure), and programming development (Visual Studio). 

It was earlier dethroned by Apple in 2010, in 2018 Microsoft recovered its position as the most valuable publicly traded organization in the world. In April 2019, Microsoft arrived at the trillion-dollar market cap, becoming the third U.S. public organization to be valued at more than $1 trillion after Apple and Amazon respectively. As of 2020, Microsoft has the third-most highest worldwide brand valuation.