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.
Ross Garner, WalletHub Community Manager. A title search on its own generally will cost you somewhere between $100 and $250, though that number varies by location, company and whether the title search cost is baked into a package deal.