Sometimes, neither TinEye nor Google will find any matches, but you shouldn’t take this as evidence that the profile pic is genuine. Google does sometimes get things wrong, so investigate carefully before you go challenging anyone. However, remember that both Google and Tineye are machines. Google may also have a guess at whom your photo depicts, which can save a lot of time if there's a lot to wade through. Don't be reluctant to click around the results Google provides, as clicking on the small blue links may show you more than the initial presentation.

Just as is the case with Tineye, Google will aim to get you as much info as possible. You can then upload your pic or enter its URL into the dialogue which appears (it's shown in the bottom half of the above capture). It's shown in the top half of the capture above.

To do that, just go to Google Images, and click on the camera icon at the far right hand side of the search box. Regardless, TinEye was able to find the original image and provide me with a match.Īnother option is to use Google's Reverse Image Search. In this instance, I stripped the colour out of a pic of a red hat. Simply look for the versions of the image with the highest res, and you narrow down your search considerably.

However, the likelihood is that the original photo will be the one with the highest resolution. Whether you want to experience the fun of challenging the faker is up to you, but you have the information, you know the truth. You then look through the results to find out where the original came from, and who it really depicts. You upload that gloriously fake profile pic to TinEye (or simply enter the pic's URL if you have it), and TinEye cites all the other instances it can find of the same photo on the Web. allows you to upload any photo, and search for a visual match. You just need the help of a free, but grossly under-publicised website. You can prove it, and it’s ridiculously easy. But try as you might, you just can’t prove that profile pic is a photo of someone else… Well, actually, in many cases that’s not true. If that guy really looked like the dude on his profile pic / avatar, the absolute last thing he’d be doing is wasting his time on a fourth rate dating site.

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