Re: Apostrophe

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Re: Apostrophe

From Jim on 25 January '98
adding to Re: Apostrophe posted by Matthew

The search engines treat apostrophes the same as
any other character, so a search for "robert's"
would find the word "robert's" (no surprise there).

In some cases the apostrophe might be 'grouped' with
other characters so, for example, a search for
"robert's" on certain engines might produce both
"robert's" and "robert s" if the apostrophe and space
character were grouped together in the database.

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Reply:	>The search engines treat apostrophes the same as >any other character, so a search for "robert's" >would find the word "robert's" (no surprise there). >In some cases the apostrophe might be 'grouped' with >other characters so, for example, a search for >"robert's" on certain engines might produce both >"robert's" and "robert s" if the apostrophe and space >character were grouped together in the database.