I think what you described is what they already have with the "including results for [similar wording]" version of the results page. They also have a link to see the exact results.
However, as of right now they only offer it for actual typos/spelling mistakes (like your example with the missing space) as opposed to semantically similar wordings.
This sounds 1) very cool, but 2) also a monster risk for spreading COVID and other diseases (literally pairing people up for close contact in as many combinations as possible).
I think it's because you are going to cross through New Mexico or Utah first (unless we represent "you" as a point, line, or other zero-width object, and have it traverse a 45° line through the infinitely small point of intersection of the four states—which I'd say would be a kind of generous model for any path that happens in real life).
What a great lead. Spoiler alert: I've been to Four Corners.
I've also flown over Labrador, and would never say "I've been to Labrador" as a result. While I have also visited Indiana, I have travelled through it by rail or car much more often, between Chicago and Michgan. If I had only done this, I would probably say "well, technically I've been to Indiana, but I drove right through it".
Leading me to the "boots on the ground" theory of visitation: a place has been visited if your feet/footware make firm contact with the ground, or an object anchored to the ground in a durable fashion.
At Four Corners, it's quite possible to step directly from New Mexico to Utah, and from Arizona to Colorado, without setting foot in the other two states in the quadrant.
At most, you fly over Arizona and Colorado, on the way from New Mexico to Utah. As we've established, flying over a place is not a visitation.
Which brings us to the fun part! Every tourist who visits four corners walks a circle around the States. Only some, and most children, do the jumps!
If you don't do the jumps you can't say "I've been to Utah straight from New Mexico", which is too bad, since that and its dual are the only topologically interesting part about Four Corners! The other pairings share long borders.
Also, Monument Valley is breathtaking. Truly a wonder of the world.
At first I thought this was going to be fantasy or some kind of conceptual piece and the front page photo was faked with Photoshop or something like DALL-E 2 with a prompt like sad minotaur girl lies in street in Italy while tourists watch, photorealistic. Looks like it's actually from some kind of (very well-done) street performance art piece.
Starting to feel what it's like to be living in the era where thinking a photo is real isn't a pretty safe default assumption.
Yeah, I was expecting some 3D walking through Venice in my browser window, something like Google street view but more smooth open space. This was very underwhelming afetr opening to just find some text musing about visiting.
It sounds like they're raking in a lot from this, so you'd kinda think they'd be best off actually giving away a car like, once every 5 years. To literally never give out the thing they're advertising seems like playing with fire. (The actual supposed big prize—after you jump through a lot of other hoops—is $100k, but same deal.)
This might be a case where people genetically taste things differently, because pistachio ice cream wasn't an acquired taste for me at all. Just seems delicious, though maybe a hair off the map of the kind of taste you usually get in ice cream.
However, as of right now they only offer it for actual typos/spelling mistakes (like your example with the missing space) as opposed to semantically similar wordings.