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Most people want the accessibility achieved through quick searches on their phones. The only users that would use a more powerful interface would be professionals. The professionals that would use it would be researchers, developers, and health practitioners.



There's no reason that a powerful interface can't have an arbitrarily-designed, simple interface built on top of it. That's how computer systems generally work.


I wonder what those professionals use today: google’s advanced search interface, niche site search, social media search, libraries, paid services, bloomberg, lexis-nexis ..?


As far as I'm aware, in the Netherlands wrt health: specialised sites. Google is all WebMD or unverifiable claims, or just doesn't go in depth. So you check your UpToDate, or pubmed, your country's/specialization's current guidelines, farmacotherapeutisch kompas for medicine (https://www.farmacotherapeutischkompas.nl/ - search for medicine and find dosage, interactions, etc). Google is often good enough for a reminder, but won't hold up for specific knowledge or minute details. So at most that Google the name of the service to search on there. Which is why I use ddg - if I know what website/information store I'm going to end up going to, I might as well use the !bang to go there directly. And you know which tools to look at because you're given them when you're studying.




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