Face search guides
The stuff worth knowing first.
Written to be useful whether or not you ever buy anything — including the parts that argue against searching, and the routes to getting your own face out of results.
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How to tell if someone is catfishing you
The signals that actually mean something, in the order worth checking them — from photo provenance to the specific excuses that never survive contact with reality.
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How to pick a photo that actually searches
Why some photos come back with 300 matches and others come back empty — and how to choose or crop a better one before you spend a search.
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What the confidence score actually tells you
A 94 is not 94% certainty. Here is what the number measures, where the useful thresholds sit, and how to read a set of results rather than a single row.
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Is reverse face search legal?
General information on where face search sits legally: what searching public images is, which uses are regulated, and the specific rules that catch people out.
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How to get your face out of face search
The difference between removing a page and de-indexing a face, and the specific routes that actually work — including the free ones most people never hear about.
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