Using Preview to enter keywords in a PDF shows quotation marks

When I enter keywords in a PDF with Preview and later open the same file with Acrobat and look at the properties, the string of keywords are within quotation marks. If I enter the keywords while in Acrobat there are no quotation marks. If the keywords are in quotation marks in the properties, does this mean that keywords are one long string that will not search well? I'm confused.

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