Through the Research options dialog box, you can customize options to suit your research needs. You can activate services for searching, add new services, and remove others from your computer. You can also turn on Parental Control, which aims to protect children from finding potentially offensive or disturbing material.

1. On the Tools menu, click Research.

2. In the Research task pane, click Research options.

3. To add research services, click Add Services.

4. Type the Internet address for the service you want, and then click Add. The service is automatically enabled for searching, and it will appear in the Search for list the next time you open the Research task pane.

Note  The address listed above is the URL for the eBay Research Web Service.

5. Upon successful completion of adding the service, it will appear in the list of available services.

6. Click OK. eBay Search should now appear in your dropdown list of available Research Services.

7. Select "eBay Search" from list of available Research Services. Enter "new camera" as the eBay product search string.

8. Press "Enter" key or click on green arrow button to begin the search process.

8. Search results are then displayed.

9. Title, current price and a link to eBay item are listed for each match found. Click on a URL link to take you to that eBay item.

Note  In Microsoft Office Outlook 2003, the Research task pane is available only when you are reading or composing e-mail messages.