6 Best Face Search Engines

Facial recognition services can help with finding new investigative insights or embarrassing and forgotten old photos

In today’s digital age, online investigators often need to search for faces to identify individuals for various purposes. From law enforcement to social media marketers, everyone needs to identify people from their images. We put our faces on social media and they stay on the internet forever. Facial recognition services can help to find additional leads in investigations, check if a person is a bot, or identify misinformation.

There are several free face search engines available that look for faces and help in their identification. To test them out, I used my own photo and made some unexpected discoveries.

Face Recognition Services

• Face Check: the service brings a variety of faces similar to those requested and links to where they were posted. The search is deleted in 24 hours, although investigators can create a permanent link. The service allows to remove your own photos from their searches after verifying identity with an ID. The website also has a Chrome extension. It found my face on three different pictures on various websites with 99%, 88%, and 86% certainty. All other results were weak matches and showed…