If you're not already, use browser shortcuts when you know where you want to go.

A few weeks ago I read about an American civilian pilot who was out on a training flight and by chance ran into the Japanese air fleet over Pearl Harbour - becoming one of the first Americans to learn of the imminent attack. I don't remember any details beyond that. If I wanted to read about that pilot on wikipedia, I guess I could navigate to Google.com, enter some relevant search terms, scroll through the results until I find one from Wikipedia that looks right, click on on, read it, see if it's the correct one, etc.

But because I search for wikipedia articles about stuff all the time, I have a chrome shortcut set up that does a Google "I'm feeling lucky" search with "inurl:en.wikipedia" appended to it, so I just type in my browser bar

    w civilian pilot first to see japanese air fleet

and hit enter, and it takes me straight to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cornelia_Fort

Once you get used to going straight to where you want to go, using the "search and choose" method becomes painfully frustrating

Edit: to be more clear, I have a chrome "custom search engine" set up with the keyword "w" and url:

    http://www.google.com/search?ie=UTF-8&q=inurl:en.wikipedia %s&btnI=745

this obviously routes your wikipedia navigation through google, which some people may have a privacy issue with, but I don't when it's something I would search google for anyway