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Within a day of the death of Matthew Sachman, 19, on New York City subway tracks, so-called obituary pirates had flooded search results with false information. Credit...Natalie Keyssar for The New ...

Obituaries from Columbia and mid-Missouri.The Missourian publishes two types of obituaries — family obituaries and life stories. A family obituary is the version submitted by a funeral home or family.

Google is actively working on fixing the problem it was with showing too much spam for obituary-related queries. Danny Sullivan, Google's Search Liaison, said "it's something we’re actively looking at ...

We reported yesterday the sad news that Bill Slawski has died. It’s less than 24 hours later and no actual obituary has been published (either by a news site or funeral home). Yet, Google’s search ...

Obituaries and funeral notices have been an important part of newspapers for generation. For some, they give a chance to pay a loving tribute to those who have left us. For others, it gives people an ...