User blog comment:Dopp/Updates to How We Search/@comment-957747-20120427001220/@comment-957747-20120427224729

Acer, did you click the Wikipedia search link I put in that comment? Wikipedia does not take you to the page.

I wrote the not feasible line after being up for 26 hours and meant it differently than it ended up coming out. I meant having both functionalities as an 'option' per user is less feasible. The issue Wikia is addressing here is to allow the search bar to return search results. The previous functionality was like Google's "I Feel Lucky" button. I agree that having two functions as listed below (with two icons, one for 'Go' and one for 'Search') is easily doable. Adding it as a preference per user is a tad more difficult. In the grand scheme of things, the two are completely different functions altogether and I honestly don't think that Wikia would add that option if this is how they want the search bar to behave.

I just get tired of all these blogs littered with comments filled with hatred and complaints without logic. Below my initial comment were lots of people screaming for Wikia to return it to it's original functionality without even realizing the reason for the change. I was simply trying to shine some light onto that reasoning.