Use cases
What people use a face search for
A face search answers one question: where else does this face appear on the public web? These guides take that answer into real situations, from a suspicious dating profile to a stolen photo, with the steps, what a result does and does not prove, and what to do next.
Every guide here follows the same shape: the situation, what you can find, how to run the search, how to read the result, and the routes that exist after it (reporting, removal, help lines). Every guide also says plainly what FaceSearch cannot do, because a face search is a lead, not a verdict.
- Catfish checkSee whether a dating photo appears elsewhere under another name before you invest time, trust or money.
- Romance scam photo checkSee whose face is really in the photos of an online partner who asks for money, and what to do next.
- Find your photos onlineSee which public pages show your face, from event galleries to copies you never agreed to, and decide what to do about each.
- Fake account using your photosLock down the evidence, find every copy with a face search, and report the impersonator on each platform.
- Getting a photo taken downSite owner, DMCA, Google removal, StopNCII or platform report: which route fits, what to send, and how long each takes.
- Verify someone is realA face search plus non-photo checks before you pay a deposit, hand over keys or meet a stranger.
- Digital footprint auditAn hour-long routine that finds every public page showing your face and ends with a removal list.
- Matrimonial profile checkSee whether a rishta profile's photos belong to someone else, then run the checks a photo cannot do.
- Intimate image abuseHelp lines and hashing tools first, then how to find public copies to report and what a face search cannot do.
- Deepfake and AI image checkWhat a face search finds when your face is used in AI images, the signs of an AI face, and where to report.
- Find old photos of yourselfSurface forgotten event galleries, school pages, press and forum avatars that still show your face, and decide what stays.
- SextortionDo not pay, stop contact, keep evidence, report. Then check whether anything was really posted.