Apostrophe's in Keyword List's

[nesystem]

I have an interesting problem with one of my websites. The specific problem is with search engines and using the Apostrophe Character. If someone searches for the name of the company for this particular web site and uses an Apostrophe as it appears in the company name (a family name like "The Smith's") they do not get the website listed in the search results at all!

If the apostrophe is omitted then the webpage shows up one the first page of the search results!

Does anyone have an idea as to what is going on here and what can be done to correct it. I have tried using "'" and & #39; (Iknow there is no space betwwen & and the # sign but it is the only way I could get it to display the string correctly) without any success. I am also somewhat confused as to the syntax of using special character in text strings like Keyword Lists. Would "The Smith's" be "The Smith's" or "The Smith's.

Is it possible this is an Encoding issue?

I have tried all of the major search engines and they all fail to search correctly with an apostrophe in the search string.

[lnxcode]

It almost sounds like the search engine hasn't found the site with the " ' " yet, but it takes time since no one normally would do:

Apple bee's

They would do:

apple bees

As you will find out that 100% correct English grammar doesn't apply on the web.