Comments on: Search Interface: Scholarly Versus Useful http://www.chemspider.com/open-chemistry-web/search-interface-scholarly-versus-useful.html The Project: Open and Integrated Structure and Text Search Sun, 19 Apr 2009 16:13:14 +0100 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: tony http://www.chemspider.com/open-chemistry-web/search-interface-scholarly-versus-useful.html/comment-page-1#comment-75 tony Fri, 09 Nov 2007 14:31:06 +0000 http://www.chemspider.com/open-chemistry-web/?p=11#comment-75 I agree with you. The Basic Search at http://www.chemspider.com/Search.aspx is exactly of that nature. It appears that most people want to search on chemicals by name. However, click under that Advanced tab and a whole new world of possibilities show up for everyone..including structure and substructure search of course. See http://www.chemspider.com/Search.aspx?t=adv Simplicity is good...advanced capabilities are necessary. Combining them on one screen...difficult. I agree with you. The Basic Search at http://www.chemspider.com/Search.aspx is exactly of that nature. It appears that most people want to search on chemicals by name. However, click under that Advanced tab and a whole new world of possibilities show up for everyone..including structure and substructure search of course. See http://www.chemspider.com/Search.aspx?t=adv

Simplicity is good…advanced capabilities are necessary. Combining them on one screen…difficult.

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