I expect better from you, Wikipedia!

This has been driving me nuts for the past few weeks. Something changed in the Wikipedia search engine so that entries will only come up if you enter their exact title correctly. This defeats the whole purpose of Wikipedia. Say I'm supposed to be writing a paper when I suddenly remember I meant to look up the population of a small town in Ohio. Why? I don't have to explain my reasons to you. Maybe I read an article about it. Maybe someone I dislike is from there and I want to see if I can rationalize their bitchiness. Maybe I'm just trying to learn more about my country! The point of the matter is unless I know the exact name and spelling of said town, Wikipedia will not even give me options. Thus, I have to resort back to Google, which will eventually just lead me back to Wikipedia. Does Google own Wikipedia now? I feel like they do, this would explain a lot.

For the record I don't Wikipedia random towns in Ohio on a whim. Actually, that's a lie. Most people Wikipedia celebrities or books that they need to read for class but don't want to. I mainly Wikipedia random small towns or forgotten weird moments in US history. 

What led me to this entry, however, is the Wikipediaing of movies. This is perhaps the area in which the new set up has failed the most. I returned my Netflix today (everyone should watch House of Yes, by the way, excellent movie). Actually Ari returned them, but that's a moot point. I was checking my queue to see what was coming up and was disappointed (something called Indian Summer...apparently it was about summer camp? No thanks). As I went down my queue I realized that I didn't actually know the plot lines to a lot of these movies and had merely added them because they were either A) recommended or B) had John Cusack in them. In an effort to find out which ones I would like to watch this weekend, I set about Wikipediaing titles. Each movie I had to try about 35 thousand ways before the site would finally show me their entry. What threw me over the edge was when I tried to search for "The Journey of Natty Gann". I must have spelled "Natty Gann" 80 different ways before realizing Wikipedia simply wanted me to put the "the" in front of the title. Screw you, Wikipedia, I don't need your cockiness.