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Is google scholar enough?

Taking my first steps as an undergrad in academia and research (looking into an internship) and I have quick question. I need to know if Google Scholar works like I think it does.

Let's say I want to research topic X. If I go to google scholar and search for X (and any other relevant tags), will it search for X on every (or at least most) journals or most of them aren't indexed and I should go to their specific sites and serch for X there (after using GoogleScholar then go to Cell, Elsevier, Journal of Whatever and search X).

How do you do your bibliography research? Any tip that might help me is welcome.
gpt
Google scholar indexes a lot of stuff, and in life sciences at least the problem with it is that it indexes too much: phdf and master theses, presentation abstracts, not-peer-reviewed books, etc. So the problem with GS is usually that it give you too much stuff, not too little.

Therefore if you want to have more pure results, you could also try pubmed. Some people only use pubmed for this reason.

Searching journals directly is only useful if the paper was published a few days ago and isn't yet indexed.