I understand your pain BUT I do not share it

Here's a blog post from a Harvard Medical School PhD student complaining about the user-unfriendliness of PubMed: http://network.nature.com/blogs/user/U2929A0EA/2008/03/22/i-am-not-yelling-not-out-loud She's right, of course, PubMed is complex. But then so is her field of expertise, cell signaling and gene transcription. Why does she expect PubMed to be simple? You know why, because Google is simple, and Google sets the standard for search engines. But consider this: PubMed has powerful search features that allow for precise retrieval of information, for finding needles in haystacks, for separating the sheep from the goats, for executing complex search strategies. Those are things that Google does not do with the same consistency and predictability. So maybe this student would benefit from investing a bit of time learning the capabilities and complexities of the world's largest biomedical database.