The research services are one of the coolest new technologies in Office 2003. John Durant has pointed us to new material that helps us developing this type of solutions. Angela Wong has an article that goes a step further and discusses the use of graphics and fancy fonts.
"One way for developers to enhance a Microsoft Office 2003 research service is to display results with appropriate graphics and fancy fonts in the Research task pane. This article shows how an e-commerce research service effectively promotes the branding of its products by using these techniques."