In fact, they used the word element to talk about anything that was basic. Ancient Greek philosophers, for example, thought that everything consisted of four elements: earth, fire, water, and air. Other philosophers thought there were only two elements: sulfur and mercury.
The Internet was expected to eliminate search costs (Pereira 2005). For example, electronic commerce was predicted to cause disintermediation as search costs become low enough for end-consumers to incur them directly instead of employing retailers to do this for them.
These are Bing's top searches for 2015. Microsoft has released its list of most searched terms on Bing this year, including the top news stories, most searched for celebrities, athletes and more. Here's what we searched for in 2015: Top news stories of 2015