FaceCheck.id

FaceCheck.id is an integrated data source (a Module) in UserSearch. It performs reverse face search: you supply a photo containing a face, and it looks for other images across its web index where the same face appears. In UserSearch, FaceCheck.id is one of the data sources behind the Picture search type.

Official site: facecheck.id

What FaceCheck.id is

FaceCheck.id is a face-matching engine rather than a text lookup. Instead of starting from a name, email or username, you start from a face in an image. It compares the face you submit against an index of images gathered from the public web and returns the places where a visually similar face turns up. That makes it useful when a photo is your only starting point and you want to find where else that person’s image appears online.

What it returns

When you run a Picture search through FaceCheck.id, it supplies image-match results such as:

• Matching images — web images containing a face that resembles the one you submitted
• Source pages — the web locations where each matching image was found
• Match confidence — a similarity score indicating how close each match is

Draft — awaiting confirmation

The exact index size, the sites and regions covered, how often the image index is refreshed, and the precise fields returned per match are not yet confirmed. Treat the list above as the general shape of what FaceCheck.id returns, not a guaranteed per-result schema. These specifics await confirmation against the product.

Which UserSearch search types use it

FaceCheck.id appears under the Picture search type, as the Module for reverse face search. You select it when your input is a photo of a person and you want to find other images of that same face elsewhere on the web. Other Picture Modules cover different tasks (such as image geo-location), so switching Modules changes both what you look up and the underlying data source.

How to access FaceCheck.id in UserSearch

1. Select the Picture search type.
2. Choose the FaceCheck.id (face search) Module.
3. Upload or provide the image containing the face you want to search.
4. Confirm the Cost per search shown on screen before you run.
5. Select Search Now.
6. Review the returned matches. Results are ranked by similarity, and the Data Source column shows FaceCheck.id.

Reliability note

Draft — awaiting confirmation

What is solid: UserSearch integrates FaceCheck.id as a data source, and it appears under the Picture search type as a reverse face-search Module. Data-source behaviour details — index coverage, match accuracy and false-positive rate, how the index is refreshed, and whether a search reads a cached index or runs a live comparison — have not been confirmed and should not be treated as fact until verified. As with any face-matching result, treat matches as leads to corroborate rather than positive identifications.

Verified against UserSearch v2.0.20