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G-Search to Highlight Dialog Information Services for Corporations & Researchers at Database 2002 Tokyo Conference

TOKYO — October 9, 2002 — Dialog, a Thomson business and a leading worldwide provider of online-based information services and integrated information solutions, today said that its long-time strategic partner in the Japanese market, G-Search Ltd., will highlight Dialog information services for corporations and professional researchers at the Database 2002 Tokyo Conference meeting here this week.

Database 2002 Tokyo (www.nikkei.co.jp/events/database/index_e.html) is one of the world's largest gatherings in the information industry, attracting tens of thousands of corporate information managers, business knowledge experts and research professionals.

G-Search (www.gsh.co.jp/), Japan's leading provider of information and knowledge management consulting services, represents Dialog as its sales and marketing agent in the Japanese market.

"Database 2002 Tokyo comes at a particularly important time for our industry and for information professionals in Japan," said Dr. Takashi Nagatsuka, general manager, Content Business Group, G-Search Ltd., a Fujitsu company, and chairman of Japan Database Industry Association (DINA), which is hosting Database 2002 Tokyo. "A number of trends are influencing how businesses can maximize their investments in information services. We are delighted to again highlight Dialog at the conference."

At Database 2002 Tokyo, G-Search will spotlight its GCMS ("G-Search Custom Menu Service"), which incorporates Dialog Intranet Toolkit to offer corporations powerful tools to include external information into their corporate intranets.The service helps companies disseminate news and analysis — such as competitive intelligence and updated industry bulletins — to professionals and managers throughout an enterprise.

G-Search also will exhibit the Dialog e-Journal Linking service, which enables researchers using Dialog online services to find relevant articles and then to seamlessly link from the retrieved citations to the fulltexts of articles published in scholarly journals from around the world. The service helps researchers quickly find the detailed information they need without having to jump between different online services or access individual Web-based services maintained by separate publishers.

Also at Database 2002 Tokyo, Ronald Kaminecki, Dialog director of information professional applications, will participate in a seminar focused on patent searching. Providing electronic access to patent records and other types of intellectual property is one of the hallmarks of Dialog services.

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About Dialog
Dialog, a pioneer in developing the technology behind electronic information retrieval, is the world leader in providing online-based information services to organizations seeking competitive advantages in such fields as business, science, engineering, finance and law.

Today, Dialog's online services - offered through the Dialog ®, Dialog Profound®, Dialog DataStar™, NewsEdge and Intelligence Data brands - give users the ability to precisely retrieve data from more than 1.4 billion unique records, accessible via the Internet or through delivery to enterprise intranets. Searchable content includes articles and reports from thousands of real-time news feeds, newspapers, broadcast transcripts and trade publications, plus research reports and analyst notes providing support for financial decision-making, as well as in-depth repositories of scientific and technical data, patents, trademarks and other intellectual property data.

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

Based in Cary, N.C., USA, Dialog has operations in 31 other countries worldwide. For more information about Dialog, please visit www.dialog.com. Or, please call (U.S./Canada) 800-3-DIALOG or (U.S.) 919-462-8600. Dialog's London office may be reached 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 New York and Toronto stock exchanges (NYSE: TOC; TSX: TOC).

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