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 ...

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 ...

Police say he searched online obituaries in the region and did a search on the victim, and he then searched for directions to the victim's home in one case.

Angela Craig, whose husband made headlines earlier this week for his alleged connection to her murder, is being remembered with an obituary that spoke to the “love she gave to being a wife and mother.