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At ComInfo 2002: Dialog celebrates 30 years of information excellence

Company to demonstrate recently launched services

FRANKFURT — June 3, 2002 — Dialog, a Thomson (TSX:TOC) business and a leading worldwide provider of online-based information services and integrated information solutions, said today that it will use its participation at the ComInfo 2002 conference to mark the 30th anniversary of the company's founding.

The anniversary commemorates the company's role as a pioneer in the online information industry and its standing today as an innovative, customer-focused and technologically sophisticated leader with information sources of unrivalled breadth and depth.

At the conference, which begins here today, Dialog (Stand A8) will focus on new products and services as well as improvements to existing products:

• Among the new products to be highlighted is NewsRoom, an online database that combines 6,500 sources of continually updated news into a unified file that can be searched using one search command. NewsRoom includes broadcast transcripts, newspapers, periodicals, newswires, trade and scholarly journals and other content sources in eight languages, drawn from nearly 80 countries.



• Dialog will demonstrate improvements to its Profound® family of products, known for its unsurpassed collection of market research and analysis. These improvements include additions to Profound's market sector indexing terms that reflect consumer and research trends, as well as search tips provided through a Help button.



• Dialog will also highlight the various services it offers to help customers develop their own customised information solutions, enabling them to select, structure and streamline relevant information and deliver it to all users.

"Since its creation in 1972, Dialog has pursued excellence in its products and services, and now has 25,000 subscribing organizations worldwide," said Ciaran Morton, president of Dialog's Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) operations. "Dialog recently acquired two other leading worldwide information service providers, NewsEdge and Intelligence Data, which will be appearing on our stand at ComInfo 2002. We are also happy that Westlaw International, another Thomson company, will also be appearing on our stand at the show."

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About Dialog
Founded in 1972 by Dr. Roger K. Summit, a pioneer in developing the technology behind electronic information retrieval, Dialog is the world leader in providing online-based information services to organisations seeking competitive advantages in such fields as business, science, engineering, finance and law.

Today, Dialog's three online platforms — Dialog®, Profound® and DataStar ™ — offer users the ability to precisely retrieve data from more than 1.2 billion unique records, accessible via the Internet or through delivery to enterprise intranets. The content available ranges from articles and reports published in thousands of publications to in-depth repositories of patents, trademarks and other intellectual property data.

Corporate librarians, knowledge managers and other information professionals at more than 25,000 business, professional and government organizations in more than 100 countries prize Dialog services for their breadth and depth of content, precision searching and speed.

Headquartered in Cary, N.C., USA, with direct operations in 32 countries throughout North American, Latin America, Europe, the Middle East, South Africa and the Asia Pacific, Dialog is a business of The Thomson Corporation. For more information about Dialog, please visit www.dialog.com. or call Dialog's London office at +44 (0) 207-940-6900.

About The Thomson Corporation
The Thomson Corporation (www.thomson.com), with 2001 revenues of US$7.2 billion, is a global leader in providing integrated information solutions to business and professional customers. Thomson provides value-added information, software applications and tools to more than 20 million users in the fields of law, tax, accounting, financial services, higher education, reference information, corporate training and assessment, scientific research and healthcare. The Corporation's common shares are listed on the Toronto Stock Exchange (TSX: TOC).

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