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Dialog Reduces Embargo on "Morning Meeting Notes" Available through Intelliscope^SM Service

Dialog's Ongoing Investments Demonstrate Commitment To Service

BOSTON — July 18, 2002 — Dialog, a Thomson (NYSE: TOC; TSX: TOC) business and a leading worldwide provider of online-based information services and integrated information solutions, announced today that "Morning Meeting Notes" — highly valued company and industry analysis prepared daily by brokerages to guide their investment decision-making and customer advice — will be available for faster access through the Intelliscope^SM service offered by the company's Intelligence Data business unit.

The Morning Meeting Notes are supplied to Intelligence Data through the First Call Notes ™ database, published by Thomson Financial, an operating unit of The Thomson Corporation. About 4,800 new notes are added to Intelliscope each day.

Previously, an embargo of up to several days was imposed on the availability of Morning Meeting Notes. By the end of July, the embargo will be reduced to approximately 12 hours from the time the reports are distributed internally by the firms producing them until they are available through Intelliscope.

Companies subscribing to Intelliscope use Morning Meeting Notes to monitor their competitors and marketplace. The notes provide analyst commentary, intraday research broadcasts and corporate news releases, and are highly regarded for their insight and analysis. They are not available on the open Web.

"We are delighted to offer our customers faster access to Morning Meeting Notes," said Cheryl Curran, executive vice president, Intelligence Data. "Morning Meeting Notes are a key element in fulfilling our mission of helping our customers leverage the best research and analysis produced in the investment and financial communities."

Dialog also said today that it had made other improvements to the Intelliscope service. Those improvements include:

• Increased bandwidth devoted to the service, which in turn enables it to operate more quickly and allows more users to interact with the service simultaneously.
  
  
• The addition of a "wait animation" icon to alert users to the status of a downloading document as it is being transferred to a user's computer. The new feature helps better communicate that the product is working during the download process.
  
  
• The ability for users to input their own accounting codes to track usage. This new feature makes it easier for businesses that bill clients for research expenses and for corporate librarians and other in-house researchers who need to track expenses for projects and internal clients.

"Our investment in improving Intelliscope demonstrates our commitment to the service," said Roy M. Martin Jr., Dialog president and CEO. "Intelliscope offers valuable content that fills an unique niche in the information marketplace. It is an important part of Dialog's portfolio of products and services, and we will continue to invest in improvements."

Intelliscope offers online access to expert opinion and analysis on companies, industries and markets drawn from 650 of the world's leading research firms, and to research reports prepared by more than 700 analysts at some 200 brokerage and investment firms. The service's content includes the Morning Meeting Notes and other brokerage research reports, as well as trade publications, newswires and other sources of current news and analysis.

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 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.

Headquartered in Cary, N.C., USA, with direct operations in 31 other countries worldwide, 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 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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