Reb,
“Today there are seforim on databases with search engines! A rov can search for teshuvas! The market today is flooded with Seforim that are melaket (collect) in halacha.”
If you are a true Lamdan you will see that is precisely the indication of what is the con of all those search engines etc.
I have seen numerous quotations of these so-called “melaktim” that have been totaly either misquoted or, totaly out of context. Many times the opposite of final halacha etc.
That is no doubt a result of one using. “search” and not knowing thoroughly, but rather seeing quickly a qoute and not learning the final end, or the next teshuvah.
However, there is nothing wrong by using search here and there, but if that is your entire basis of knlowedge then your knlowedge is not true kinyan of yedios. You might remember it for a day or a week, but it will never be a part of you.
You will never find someone like Rav Ovadia Yosef misquoting, for his knlowedge was obtained through yegiah and learning through these seforim from cover to cover.