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Dialog Adds Financial Times Content to News Databases
New FT Editions Available Daily by 5 a.m. GMT on Date of Publication

CARY, N.C., USA, September 6, 2001 — Dialog, a Thomson business and a leading provider of online-based information services, announced today that the full text content of the Financial Times (FT) and its online partner FT.com are available on Dialog products, used by information professionals and business leaders worldwide.

Three months of archive FT issues are being made available on Dialog's products — Profound®, Dialog®, and DataStar™ — in early September, the company said. In October, Profound will carry a five-year archive of FT content, while Dialog and DataStar will provide an approximate 20-year repository. The full text content includes all sections of the newspaper that FT provides in accordance with copyrights. Additionally, all three Dialog platforms will provide the current day's Financial Times content by 5 a.m. GMT.

"We are very pleased that the Financial Times has agreed to add its content to our services," said Roy M. Martin, Jr., Dialog's chief executive officer. "For our European customers, as well as for our users in the international marketplace worldwide, the FT adds an important new resource for tracking current events and for in-depth business and market research. The fact that the FT has chosen to work with us is tremendous."

"This is a good partnership," said Michael Murphy, chief operating officer, FT.com. "The addition of FT content to the Dialog service means that Dialog customers have an increasingly powerful and impartial news and analysis tool at their disposal."

The addition of Financial Times editorial material comes as Dialog continues its push to expand the breadth, diversity and depth of the content it offers its users. Dialog already provides access to more than 6,330 news sources, including newspapers from major international business markets, available for electronic searching and retrieval through the company's online services.

Dialog customers looking to retrieve the newly added FT content via the company's online services can access it on the Dialog product at File 476, on DataStar at FTNP, and on Profound at NewsLine.

About Dialog
Dialog is the worldwide leader in providing online-based information services to organizations seeking competitive advantages in such fields as business, science, engineering, finance, and law. Its products and services, such as Dialog®, Profound®, and DataStar™, offer organizations the ability to precisely retrieve data from more than 800 million unique records, accessible via the Internet or through delivery to enterprise Intranets. For almost three decades, Dialog's brands have been known for their breadth and depth of content, precision searching, and speed. The Winter Corporation recently recognized Dialog for its breadth and depth of content, when they named the company the Grand Prize-winner in the Database Scalability Program 2000.

Headquartered in Cary, N.C., USA, with direct operations in 30 countries, Dialog products are used by more than 20,000 corporate customers in over 100 countries. Dialog is a subsidiary of The Thomson Corporation, a leading global e-information and solutions company in the business and professional marketplace with 2000 revenues of approximately $6 billion. The Corporation's common shares are listed on the Toronto and London stock exchanges (TSE:TOC).

For more information about Dialog, call 1-800-3-DIALOG or visit www.dialog.com. For more information about Thomson, visit www.thomson.com.

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About the Financial Times
FT.com is the world's leading global business Web site and is the online partner of the Financial Times. Combining the values and expertise of the Financial Times newspaper with the immediacy and interactivity of the Internet, FT.com provides a global perspective of business, finance, politics and economics, as well as lifestyle and the arts. FT.com also offers a wealth of financial data, unique dossiers on key business people and a range of tools to search the Internet and manage a busy workday.

FT.com is part of the Financial Times Group, one of the world's leading business information companies, which aims to provide a broad range of information and services to the growing audience of internationally minded business people. Apart from the Financial Times newspaper, which has one of the world's fastest growing international readerships, the FT Group also includes France's leading business news publication, Les Echos, as well as Spain's leading business source, Expansion. In 2000, the FT Group launched a German language newspaper, FT Deutschland, with a fully integrated online business news and data service. The FT Group is a substantial stakeholder in CBSMarketwatch.com, with which it operates FTMarketWatch.com, its European counterpart. The FT Group also holds stakes in a number of joint ventures, including FTSE International, a joint venture with the London Stock Exchange, Vedomosti, Russia's leading business newspaper, and a 50% stake in The Economist, the world's leading weekly business and current affairs journal.

The FT Group is part of Pearson PLC (FTSE: PSON) (NYSE: PSO), an international media company with market-leading positions in strategic business information, education, consumer publishing and international television production.

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