The Internet was expected to eliminate search costs .

Lower search costs are akin to playing the music faster, which enables players to find their chairs sooner.

One prediction is unambiguous: Productivity should increase as a result of lower search costs.

"But on the Web, those search costs go to close to zero, and that has profound implications for how you present these issues to consumers."

There also seems to be a high search cost involve for urban workers looking for a job in the suburbs.

With search costs approaching the $1 million mark, the plane was not found by the weekend.

The search costs are the costs of finding a car and determining the car's condition.

Commander West said the authorities would seek restitution for the more than $10,000 that the search cost.

Even if we only have estimates of the search costs, such a system can considerably speed up lookups on average.

In most theoretical literature, price dispersion is argued as result from spatial difference and the existence of significant search cost.