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News Reporting From Europe & Hard-to-Monitor Countries Added to Dialog NewsRoom

CARY, N.C., USA (July 14, 2004) — 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 has added in-depth news covering Europe and hard-to-monitor countries to its Dialog® NewsRoom service.

Dialog NewsRoom is an online database that aggregates news reports from around the world, with editorial materials continuously added from more than 8,000 global sources, including newspapers, newswires, specialty newsletters, trade media and scholarly journals, drawn from nearly 80 countries in English and 13 other languages.

Designed for both the occasional user as well as professional information specialists, Dialog NewsRoom subscribers include government agencies, corporations, news services, professional and political organizations, public relations agencies and others. They use the service for news tracking, competitive intelligence, market awareness and numerous other purposes.

Among the highlights of recent content additions to Dialog NewsRoom are:

• News reports culled from local media based in such hard-to-monitor countries as China, Cuba, India, Iran, Iraq, Libya, Pakistan and Serbia. The reports are translated into English and made available through World News Connection®, a service distributed by Dialog with information compiled daily by the U.S. government's Foreign Broadcast Information Service and published by the U.S. Department of Commerce’s National Technical Information Service. World News Connection is available as a stand-alone service for subscription (wnc.dialog.com) or as a component of other Dialog services, including Dialog NewsRoom. Content is added to World News Connection every government business day, and generally is available for electronic searching and retrieval within 24-72 hours of original publication or broadcast.
  
  
• Five newswires from ANSA, a leading Italian news agency. The newswires report on a wide range of international news, with reports on business, cultural, political, sport and local topics that are focused on Italy, Europe and Latin America. About 2,500 new ANSA reports — in English, Italian, Portuguese and Spanish — are added to Dialog NewsRoom every day.
  
  
• Daily news reports produced in English by the EUobserver, a publisher of newsletters and an online service (www.euobserver.com) covering European affairs. Articles cover events in Brussels, headquarters for the European Union, and other European capitals by scanning the continent’s media in 20 different languages.
  
  
• Seventy-five to 100 articles added daily from Economist Intelligence Unit: ViewsWire, a business intelligence service covering developments in more than 180 countries. ViewsWire features Country Alerts (daily news briefings), Country Views (timely assessments and forecasts of changing market conditions), and Country Background (facts and figures on local markets), among other features.

Dialog recently released a new version of the Dialog NewsRoom service operating on the company’s new technology platform designed for its line of business information, news and market research services. Another Dialog service, Dialog Profound® also is now operating on the new platform, with new versions of other Dialog services to be launched on the platform later this year. Content accessible through the new platform is bundled, enabling users to search across the different Dialog services.

The new platform also features SmartTerms™, a new taxonomy (or indexing system) developed by Dialog for its business information, news and market research content. SmartTerms contains more than 855,000 indexed terms, allowing researchers and business professionals to generate highly relevant results from their online searches.

Search results in Dialog NewsRoom also include advanced document hyperlinking features, which automatically suggest related terms and other options to facilitate in-depth researching without interruption.

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About Dialog and The Thomson Corporation
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, the online services provided by Dialog — offered through the Dialog®, Dialog Profound®, Dialog DataStar™, Dialog NewsEdge® and Dialog Intelliscope^SM 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. 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 26 other countries. Dialog (www.dialog.com) is a business of The Thomson Corporation (NYSE: TOC; TSX: TOC). With 2003 revenues of US$7.6 billion, Thomson (www.thomson.com) is a global leader in providing integrated information solutions to business and professional customers.

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