I have made a search page using Examine which for the moment works fine and as intended (still needs to get paging sorted...), but I have run into an issue. I also want the page to function as a related tags page, as in an article can have several tags, and if you click a tag you can see related articles with the same tag. Pretty basic stuff. Only I have found out that Examine cant really handle tag data types because as I understand they are stored in a comma delimited list, something Examine cant handle in this case. I have searched around and found only a few hints of others having the same problem, one with an actual solution but that sadly no longer works in Umbraco 10: https://our.umbraco.com/forum/developers/api-questions/57958-Using-Examine-to-search-UmbracoTags

Also found this more recent one, but kind of a dead end: https://our.umbraco.com/forum/umbraco-8/98761-how-to-match-tags-in-examine-in-v8-theyre-now-stored-as-a-json-string-array

So yeah, what the heck do I do?

For good measure here is my examine code:

@{
    Layout = "master.cshtml";
    var searchQuery = !string.IsNullOrWhiteSpace(Context.Request.Query["q"].ToString()) ? Context.Request.Query["q"].ToString() : "";
    var tags = !string.IsNullOrWhiteSpace(Context.Request.Query["tags"].ToString()) ? Context.Request.Query["tags"].ToString() : "";
    var parent = !string.IsNullOrWhiteSpace(Context.Request.Query["parent"].ToString()) ? Convert.ToInt32(Context.Request.Query["parent"].ToString()) : 1088;

    if (!examineManager.TryGetIndex(Constants.UmbracoIndexes.ExternalIndexName, out IIndex index))
    {
        throw new InvalidOperationException($"No index found by name{Constants.UmbracoIndexes.ExternalIndexName}");
    }
    var searcher = index.Searcher;
    var criteria = searcher.CreateQuery(IndexTypes.Content);
    var filter = criteria.ParentId(parent).AndNot(x => x.Field("umbracoNaviHide", 1.ToString()));

    if (!string.IsNullOrWhiteSpace(tags))
    {
        filter.And().Field("tags", tags);
    }
    if (!string.IsNullOrWhiteSpace(searchQuery))
    {
        filter.And().ManagedQuery(searchQuery);
    }
    var res = filter.Execute();
}