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I use academic databases on a fairly regular basis. Generally, I don't like Google Scholar. I often run into the problem that ARTelevision described. That said, one benefit of Google Scholar that I have noticed is that in its search results it also lists where particular articles and authors have been cited by others. That's great because I'm often interested in research related to a particular author. When google gives me info about who cites that author, it's helpful.

Google scholar is also nice if you don't have access to other academic search engines.