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Dialog at Online 2002: "Creativity and Innovation"

Company to Focus on Alerts, News, Linking, Business Information & Intellectual Property Content and Products

LONDON (26 November, 2002) — Dialog, a Thomson (NYSE: TOC; TSX: TOC) business and a leading worldwide provider of online-based information services and integrated information solutions, said today that it will spotlight an array of new and enhanced products and content at the Online Information 2002 conference, the world's largest gathering of information industry professionals that begins here next week. (Stand no. 246).

"Our subscribers are drawn from a wide range of industries and specialties from across Europe and around the world," said Ciaran Morton, Dialog's senior executive for Europe, Middle East, Africa and Asia/Pacific. "We're eager to showcase the tremendous work we've done this year. Our leadership in the information industry is based not just on our large number of customers or on the volume of information we make available, but also on the creativity and innovation we bring to our work."

Among the new and enhanced products and services Dialog will highlight are:

• Dialog NewsRoom, a unified database of more than 7,000 news sources drawn from nearly 100 countries, with built-in Alerting features.
• Dialog's soon-to-be launched corporate portals service that will enable enterprises to integrate content and information services into their business processes.
• Brokerage and other investment-oriented information supplied by Intelligence Data, which recently became part of Dialog. The Intelligence Data product line includes IntraScope, InSite and Intelliscope.
• Extensive additions to Dialog's already formidable collection of scientific, technical and medical information, such as patent, trademark and similar data.
• A database of Internet domain names, with about 65 million records covering about 20 million currently active plus historic domain names, all searchable by more than 50 indexed data fields.
• Seamless linking from citations of articles published in scholarly and professional journals focused on chemical industry topics to the full abstracts of those documents, a new service that adds value to the more than17 million chemical citations available through Dialog. (Dialog is a leader in e-journal linking.)
• The addition of image to files of trademark registrations from Finland, Norway and Sweden.
• Ongoing additions of business information services to various files and databases available through Dialog services.

Among the conference events Dialog will host:

• Presentation of the Roger K. Summit Scholarship for excellence in the field of electronic information (conference banquet, 4 Dec.)
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• Awarding of "InfoStar" awards (Dialog stand, 2 pm, 4 Dec.).
• Two workshops: 1) "Assessing Your Client's Needs" (3 Dec., 12.15-1 pm) and 2) "Defining The Value of Information: Beyond ROI," (4 Dec., 11.15-12.00).
• A case study: "Providing Remote Access to Medical Databases," by Ian Snowley, Royal Society of Medicine (Content Solutions Theatre, 4 Dec., 3:30 p.m.).

Editors: for information about attending any of the Dialog events or to book a demonstration of Dialog products and services, please contact Karen Davis (details below).

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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 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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