diff --git a/server/AyaNova/biz/AyaTypeId.cs b/server/AyaNova/biz/AyaTypeId.cs
index 35acb6e1..95c7deb1 100644
--- a/server/AyaNova/biz/AyaTypeId.cs
+++ b/server/AyaNova/biz/AyaTypeId.cs
@@ -49,6 +49,20 @@ namespace AyaNova.Biz
                 _ayaType = (AyaType)Enum.Parse(typeof(AyaType), sObjectTypeNumeral);
         }
 
+        public bool Equals(AyaTypeId x, AyaTypeId y)
+        {
+
+            //Check whether the compared objects reference the same data.
+            if (Object.ReferenceEquals(x, y)) return true;
+
+            //Check whether any of the compared objects is null.
+            if (Object.ReferenceEquals(x, null) || Object.ReferenceEquals(y, null))
+                return false;
+
+            //Check whether the products' properties are equal.
+            return x.ObjectId == y.ObjectId && x.ObjectType == y.ObjectType;
+        }
+
         public bool IsEmpty
         {
             get
@@ -96,7 +110,8 @@ namespace AyaNova.Biz
 
 
 
-    }
+
+    }//eoc
 
 
 }//eons 
diff --git a/server/AyaNova/biz/Search.cs b/server/AyaNova/biz/Search.cs
index cec30b51..16d1de6c 100644
--- a/server/AyaNova/biz/Search.cs
+++ b/server/AyaNova/biz/Search.cs
@@ -198,6 +198,8 @@ namespace AyaNova.Biz
             //IF TAGS SPECIFIED          
             if (searchParameters.Tags.Count > 0)
             {
+                //get a count of the search tags (used by both paths below)
+                var SearchTagCount = searchParameters.Tags.Count;
 
                 if (string.IsNullOrWhiteSpace(searchParameters.Phrase))
                 {
@@ -232,7 +234,7 @@ namespace AyaNova.Biz
                     var ShortList = await ct.TagMap.Where(x => x.TagId == ShortestMatchingTag).ToListAsync();
 
                     //4) Iterate the shortlist and see if each item matches all other tags specified if it does then put it into the matching objects list for return
-                    var SearchTagCount = searchParameters.Tags.Count;
+
                     //Iterate shortlist
                     foreach (TagMap t in ShortList)
                     {
@@ -262,7 +264,7 @@ namespace AyaNova.Biz
                 }
                 else
                 {
-                    #region TAGS PLUS PHRASE SEARCH NONE MATCHING TAGS ARE EXCLUSIVE
+                    #region TAGS PLUS PHRASE SEARCH WITH NON MATCHING TAGS EXCLUSIVE
                     //list to hold temporary matches
                     List<AyaTypeId> TagMatchingObjects = new List<AyaTypeId>();
 
@@ -270,12 +272,16 @@ namespace AyaNova.Biz
                     foreach (AyaTypeId i in MatchingObjects)
                     {
                         var matchCount = await ct.TagMap.Where(x => x.TagToObjectId == i.ObjectId && x.TagToObjectType == i.ObjectType && searchParameters.Tags.Contains(x.TagId)).LongCountAsync();
+                        if (matchCount == SearchTagCount)
+                        {
+                            TagMatchingObjects.Add(i);
+                        }
 
                     }
 
-                    //FOREACH OBJECT SEARCH TAGMAP FOR MATCHING ALL TAGS FOR OBJECTTYPE AND ID
-                    //IF NOT MATCH THEN REMOVE
-                    //REMOVE RESULTS FROM SEARCH PHRASE PHASE THAT ARE NOT MATCHING
+                    //Ok here we have all the MatchingObjects that had all the tags in the TagMatchingObjects list so that's actually now our defacto return list
+                    MatchingObjects = TagMatchingObjects;
+
 
                     #endregion
 
@@ -283,7 +289,10 @@ namespace AyaNova.Biz
             }
 
             //REMOVE ANY ITEMS THAT USER IS NOT PERMITTED TO READ
-            //TODO: this
+            foreach (AyaTypeId t in MatchingObjects)
+            {
+
+            }
 
 
             //amost ready to return, now populate the return list