This morning I googled for the term “internal monetary transactions“. The search engine returned 5 hits only. The top two were pointing to this website, the other three pages seemed irrelevant to me (stuff about Angola, Slovenia and Bosnia).

I was hoping to find some interesting information, like business articles or research papers in economics. Now I know that the topic of internal monetary transactions is vastly disregarded and therefore has great potential for future development.

I did a few additional searches with Google in order to create the intersection graph below (see the Wikipedia article to find out what an intersection graph is). The terms “monetary transactions” (371′000 hits) and “internal transactions” (91′600 hits) seem to be relatively widespread, while there was virtually nothing for “internal monetary transactions” (5 hits).

Search engines are a useful tool when you want to find how popular a particular concept is in relation to other concepts. It’s also useful in analysing how concepts overlap.

Do you know good software for creating nice intersection graphs? I couldn’t find one on the web, so I had to draw the graph by hand with my vector drawing program Inkscape. It’s not quite to scale, but it looks nice!