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Thomson Intelligence Data Transferred to Dialog
Focus on Corporate Market Enhanced

CARY, NC, USA, February 1, 2002 -- Dialog, a Thomson business and a leading worldwide provider of online-based information services, today announced the transfer of the Thomson Intelligence Data business to Dialog. Formerly managed by the Financial group within Thomson, Intelligence Data expands Dialog's reach further into strategic intelligence, competitive intelligence and marketing departments of the corporate marketplace.

The Intelligence Data product line includes IntraScope, InSite and Intelliscope, the flagship product featuring Investext's broker research, and First Call's morning meeting note content. IntraScope offers this content directly to business intranets while InSite delivers Gale Group (also a Thomson business) trade journals and company profile data.

"The Intelligence Data business is complementary to Dialog, and its addition to the Dialog portfolio supports our goal to provide the broadest and most powerful e-information solutions to our customers worldwide," said Dialog President and CEO Roy M. Martin, Jr. "It enhances the array of content, products and services solutions we are able to offer our customers, much like the 2001 addition of NewsEdge business and products to Dialog's portfolio.

"Dialog and NewsEdge are well-established with market-leading positions in the corporate sector," he continued. "Combining Intelligence Data's expertise with that of Dialog and NewsEdge will more strategically position the combined organization to serve the corporate market space globally."

All Intelligence Data employees, the majority of whom are based in Boston, will remain with the organization. The remainder of the staff operates in offices in San Francisco and throughout Europe.

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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 organizations 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 America, 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, 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 2000 revenues of approximately US$6 billion, is a leading provider of integrated information solutions to business and professional markets worldwide. The Corporation's common shares are listed on the Toronto (TSE:TOC) and London stock exchanges.

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