Find the Source Page of a Face Photo

From one photograph to a publication page

Start with a clear photo containing one face. After the search finishes, review main Matches first and use Similar faces as additional visual leads. Open a promising card rather than relying on its small thumbnail or percentage alone.

• Upload one clear face and let the search complete.
• Select a card to open the details view.
• Follow the domain-named link to the publication page.
• Compare the page’s full image, caption and surrounding text.
• Check Variants for more recorded page/image sources.

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A publication page and an image file answer different questions

The page link leads to the article or other public page recorded with the face. That is where you can look for context, credits and publication information. Original image leads to the image resource and can help inspect detail, but often has none of that surrounding information.

Images may be served from a CDN with a hostname different from the publisher. Do not assume that the image server is the author or first publisher. Likewise, a face crop in CS Match is a preview of the indexed face, not the complete original photograph.

A found source is not necessarily the original source

Several sites can publish the same image, and a page may embed an older photograph. Compare credited names, captions, dates and links on the actual pages. A page date can describe the article rather than when the photo was first created or published.

Face Search ranks visual candidates; it does not establish a chain of ownership or verify which page came first. Use recorded sources as starting points for further checking. Do not infer authorship, permission or identity from the score.

When a source does not open

Pages can be removed, redirect, require login or restrict access after indexing. Image URLs can expire too. Try another recorded variant or domain, and note that a cached thumbnail can remain visible even when the external source has changed.

CS Match cannot restore a deleted third-party page or bypass its access rules. If you are reporting an unwanted publication, contact the publisher using the information on that site. A deletion request to CS Match concerns our own records and cannot remove another site’s original file.

Share the evidence intentionally

Share creates a public link to a saved face-search result, including its query face and returned galleries. Anyone with the link can view that saved result. It is not a live subscription to future changes in the external sources.

Use Stop sharing if you no longer want the link to work. Recipients may already have saved a copy. For a privacy or deletion request concerning CS Match records, use the instructions on our User Data Deletion page.