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.
The first place I turned in my quest to get up to date was, of course, Google. Searching is an excellent resource, but it doesnât always return the newest results. A great new feature Google added recently was its sidebar where you can click âMore Search Toolsâ and limit your results to a time period.