But there's hope for the future. Some day, XML will become widespread, and webmasters will be able to add tags to each data element, and still be able to publish it in any shape and format. Then, an XML based search engine could be taught to find all pieces of data with those tags. What a dilemna. Try searching a census.
Most wills mention household goods or a house in the estate.
Surely, some day, it will get better. At least, I am keeping my fingers crossed. Ancestry is the worst for that too, so I try to stay away to avoid the frustration. What gets my goat is when one puts in a surname, say JAY for instance, but when it comes back, you have a thousand different hits and many of them contain the first name JAY instead of the last.