How long are old Obituaries searchable Online?

I'm trying to find out if some I used to know is still alive & I'm wondering how far back Obituary archives go on newspaper Web-Sites

Anonymous2013-08-17T16:00:05Z

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You might want to go to ancestry.com. Not long. It doesn't so much depend how important the person was so much as driftwood and simply whether it's there or not.