Using a Boolean "AND" to Refine Searches Using Tags

[donrocks]

Hello folks,

I run a restaurant website.

Suppose a member wants to find all Spanish restaurants in Philadelphia.

They would click on the "Spanish" tag, and get not only all Spanish restaurants in Philadelphia, but also information about Madrid, where to dine in Barcelona, what's showing at the Prado, etc.

Having a Boolean "AND" will enable this to be winnowed down to what you want. After the member gets this first list, they click on "Philadelphia", and this will produce results for:

Spanish & Philadelphia

and the AND'ing of the two tags will give them almost exactly what they want. It might pick up, for example, a Salvadore Dali exhibition at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, but 99% of the result will be Spanish restaurants in Philadelphia.

This is but one of almost an infinite number of permutations. Thai restaurants in DC, but only in select neighborhoods, for example. The usefulness of this would be dramatic, and would really have an impact on searches.

Does anyone else think this is as important as I do?

Cheers,
Don Rockwell

donrockwell.com
dcdining.com

[chilihead]

It's VERY important in fact if they offer it soon imo it should be the default tag search.

If I tag search BBQ+chicken+recipe that's what I should get, and the purpose of tags. I don't want individual tag results because anything tagged recipe is no use to me here.

I suggested it here and it's marked "Not Planned" but Lindy said actually it may be Planned lol... I guess you have to read it.

[donrocks]

I just want to add that I spent almost 25 years of my life as a database specialist, and the highlight of my entire career was developing a high-speed Boolean algorithm - unless I share this with someone, it will go with me to the grave, and that would be a shame.

I'll be happy to help Invision out with this, should they decide to use it. This is one area of computer science (databases, boolean applications) that I can honestly say I'm an expert in - I'm not up-to-date on modern languages, so I'd have to explain things in English, or using pseudo-code. 

Please get in touch with me if you want help. 

[donrocks]

On 5/10/2016 at 10:28 AM, donrocks said:

Hello folks,

I run a restaurant website.

Suppose a member wants to find all Spanish restaurants in Philadelphia.

They would click on the "Spanish" tag, and get not only all Spanish restaurants in Philadelphia, but also information about Madrid, where to dine in Barcelona, what's showing at the Prado, etc.

Having a Boolean "AND" will enable this to be winnowed down to what you want. After the member gets this first list, they click on "Philadelphia", and this will produce results for:

Spanish & Philadelphia

and the AND'ing of the two tags will give them almost exactly what they want. It might pick up, for example, a Salvadore Dali exhibition at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, but 99% of the result will be Spanish restaurants in Philadelphia.

This is but one of almost an infinite number of permutations. Thai restaurants in DC, but only in select neighborhoods, for example. The usefulness of this would be dramatic, and would really have an impact on searches.

Does anyone else think this is as important as I do?

Cheers,
Don Rockwell

donrockwell.com
dcdining.com

Any thoughts about this idea?

[Xenboy]

You might want to open a ticket about this if you want to contribute code.

I can say that I used to work for some large companies and under no circumstances would any of them take ideas or content/code from anyone for fear of legal repercussions later. I'm not sure how IPS would handle this.