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Dialog®PRO Wins e-Content Award at Information Highways Conference

Canada's Leading Information Industry Event Honours Online Service Designed for Small Businesses Worldwide

TORONTO (March 25, 2003) — Dialog, a Thomson (TSX: TOC; NYSE: TOC) business and a leading worldwide provider of online-based information services and integrated information solutions, said today that DialogPRO Competitive Intelligence has won the e-Content Award for best business information service at the Information Highways conference meeting here this week.

The award was announced at the conference opening banquet last night in Toronto. The annual Information Highways conference and showcase, Canada's leading e-Content event, is sponsored by the Toronto-based e-Content Institute.

"All of us at Dialog, particularly those who have worked so diligently on DialogPRO, are extremely proud to have our service honoured with this prestigious award," said Cynthia Murphy, Dialog senior vice president, Strategic Marketing. "We set out to build a product for small businesses that would help them easily utilize premium business information content as an asset for success. The recognition of DialogPRO from the e-Content Institute tells us we're doing the right thing."

Juanita Richardson, an information professional and chairperson of the judging committee, said: "The creation of a product specifically designed for the small and medium business is especially creative, and the overall design shows an insight into the information needs of small business owners — particularly in terms of content, comfort level with database searching and price.

"DialogPRO rates highly for innovation, quality, benefits to customers and accessibility," Richardson noted.

The DialogPRO ("Predictable Research Online") online service, the first Dialog product designed exclusively for small businesses worldwide, offers easy access to information culled from the more than 15 terabytes of information Dialog has gathered from around the world.

Dialog content is a continually updated repository known for its depth and breadth, from newspapers and wire services offering real-time news and business analysis, to deep databases of intellectual property data, such as patents and trademark records — all backed by precision searching tools and automated alerting features.

DialogPRO users subscribe to one or more content channels that best meet their business needs. The 10 content channels currently offered are: Advertising, Biotech, Competitive Intelligence, Consulting, Defense, Engineering, Energy, News, Patent and Trademark, with more expected to be added this year.

For examples of information sources available through each content channel, please visit http://www.dialog.com/products/dialogpro/.

Subscription tiers are available within each content channel. The three tiers — Primary, Plus and Premier — vary by the number and type of information sources provided.

For example, Primary packages include "must have" news relevant to the content channel chosen. The Plus tier contains additional sources focused on commentary and analysis. Premier offers the most complete information solution, with a comprehensive collection of content made available to the subscribing small business owner or department manager.

Additionally, all DialogPRO subscribers may also search for and then retrieve articles and reports from information sources not included in their subscription tier on a transactional basis. The price for a selected document is displayed onscreen before the user makes a final determination to buy it.

DialogPRO is available only to small businesses, as determined by revenue size. The revenue threshold varies by country.

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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 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. The Dialog office in London may be reached at (44) (0) 207-940-6900.

About The Thomson Corporation
The Thomson Corporation (www.thomson.com), with 2002 revenues of US$7.8 billion, is a global leader in providing integrated information solutions to business and professional customers. Thomson provides value-added information, software tools and applications 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 and New York stock exchanges (TSX: TOC; NYSE: TOC).

Designated trademarks used herein are the property of The Dialog Corporation or its subsidiaries. Registered marks are registered by The Dialog Corporation or its subsidiaries with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. All other marks are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective owners.

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