The issue of labeling

It is very important that our labeling in Information Technology remains uniform throughout. To a reader the words US, USA, the United States, the States, America, and the United States of America all may signify the same thing. But in technology a computer, or search engine recognizes them all as separate things, separate words of different meaning. We may be unable to fully explore a topic because it is described as a "football match" instead of a "soccer game."


Please brainstorm solutions to this obstacle.