The internet has grown since its inception, and almost everything can be done on it. That includes finding someone with a picture, although that can be tricky. With the footprint people leave online, you would expect using their photos to find them to be easy, unfortunately, that’s not the case. Even with the many reverse image search platforms on the internet, you are rarely successful with your search.
Nevertheless, there is potential. Depending on how popular their presence is on social media and other platforms, you can successfully find them with their pictures. Some of these platforms offer to uncover the name, phone number, and other details of the person in the image you are looking for. However, that is probably to make you pay some money as most have completely failed.
Will I find someone with their photo?
There are many reasons to do a reverse image search on someone. With the popularity of social media platforms, it is now easy to meet new people and make friends. Some even find love on these platforms and considering how easily someone can fake their looks or impersonate someone, looking them up with their supposed pictures is necessary.
Additionally, people can use the pictures they have of their older friends or families to reconnect with them through social media or other platforms. Before agreeing to date someone you met online, especially someone you have not seen before, doing a reverse image search on their picture is very important to avoid falling in love with a scammer.
How to find someone with a picture
There are many websites you can leverage for the search, but only a few allow you a free search. The process involves scanning the internet, social media, and other platforms to match the photos you uploaded with similar ones. Oftentimes, the results are disappointing, which is the reason to go for free searches.
Google image search
Google is still the king of search, and with Google Lens, you can perform reverse image searches. Over the years, image search on Google has gotten better, but your chances of finding a match are poor, especially when the person you are looking for is not a celebrity. Hence, if the photo belongs to a random stranger like someone you met online, you are less likely to find the person in this way.
Meanwhile, if you are searching for popular places, using Google image search is a brainer. You are likely to get all the information you are looking for when searching for popular places on Google.
To perform a reverse image search with this tool, follow the steps below.
- Navigate to the Google Images website.
- Next, click on the camera icon.
- Upload the picture you would like to look up or paste the image URL, and hit the Search button.
- With that, you’ll be able to view your search results in a new tab.
- On Chrome, tap lens icon close to the microphone.
- Tap the image you want to search, or use click on the camera icon to snap.
FaceCheck.ID
FaceCheck.ID is another platform that allows reverse image search. While it’s better than Google image search in terms of accuracy, it only shows you faces. It is difficult to see other information about the person you are searching for unless you pay.
According to FaceCheck.ID, it uses proprietary AI technology to identify faces, measure similarities, and efficiently sift through vast data. During the scanning process, platforms they scan trying to get matching images are displayed on the screen.
And while you get better search results when compared to Google search, faces are the only thing you can see. To see other information about the person you searched for, you will have to pay. We will not recommend paying to perform a reverse image search as the results are not guaranteed.
To perform a reverse image search with this tool, follow the steps below.
- Navigate to the FaceCheck.ID website
- Next, click Browse to upload the image you’d like to search for.
- Next, agree to the terms of use and click on Search Internet by Face.
- Once done, you’ll be directed to a page where you can view your search results.
Social Catfish
Social Catfish wants your data before you can find someone with a picture on their platform. You are expected to judge the accuracy of their search based on what you have seen on the internet or what someone told you.
There are five stages for looking up an image on Social Catfish.
- Stage 1. Processing image
- Stage 2. Scan Social media
- Stage 3. Deep scanning
- Stage 4. Scammer database
- Stage 5. Organizing results
After the search, the results are not shown to you until you make a payment. It makes it difficult to decide whether to pay, unlike FaceCheck.ID that shows you the faces, but requires a payment before you see other information. We do not recommend paying to search for someone on the platform, but for popular places and celebrities, sure but Google search can do that.
To run a reverse image search with Social Catfish, follow the steps below;
- Go to the Social Catfish website on your browser.
- Next, select the image option.
- Upload the Image from your local storage on the Social Catfish’s server and hit the search button.
- After searching and analyzing your image, a new page opens. Click “Yes, I Understand.”
- The payment page will then appear in front of you to download a detailed report of the searched image.
Should I pay to use a reverse image search platform?
I will not recommend paying to search someone with their photo. The chances of getting a good result are poor, as only celebrities can be found using this method. Trying to locate someone random on these platforms might be a waste of time, and if you pay to do that, you will lose your money as well.
I recommend using Google Images to look for people. Google is still the king of search. It’s free and quick. You can get images from everywhere on the internet when you use Google search instead of other platforms.
Conclusion
The likelihood of finding someone using their picture in a reverse image search is very low. Unless you’re looking for well-known places or celebrities, I wouldn’t recommend paying for such a service. The best way to verify someone you’ve met online is through a spontaneous video call—no need to plan it.
