TinEye and the changing face of me

I never did figure out who the previous imposter was on the much maligned Cuil search engine, but while pondering it I wondered why there wasn’t a search engine where I could upload an image and find where it came from.

Lo and behold, along comes TinEye to save the day. Unfortunately, when I went to grab the image, one imposter had been replaced by another as you can see from the screenshot on the right. But thanks to TinEye, I’m not left wondering who I am this time. I’m a character called Lucas, who seems to be from a soap opera I’ve thankfully never heard of called Another World.

I tried carefully cropping the image out of my previous screenshot, but that wasn’t good enough – perhaps TinEye just fingerprints the image’s binary data, while my version had been re-encoded a couple of times. On the other hand, I get the impression from the TinEye FAQ that it should be able to handle that. Maybe when I’m not as busy I’ll have another go. In the meantime the previous imposter is still on the loose, so answers on a postcard please if you recognise him.