"Scholarly Research reduces unnecessary experimentation. In fact, people dedicate entire chunks of their lives to being good at searching and testing!"
In his blog, Dr. Karthik Raman (Dept of Bioengineering, University of Utah, UT) discusses the tools that are available to help Biologists and biochemists perform effective research. In particular he is focusing on biology-related search engines and their development/features since their inception.
http://www.scigine.com/blog/scigine-biology-methods-search-engine-inception/