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Creepy Google Local possibilities

Sure, Google Local is meant for finding, say, your neighborhood wi-fi coffeeshops. But it's far more interesting to find all of the other people in your city who share your somewhat rare name. Apparently there are a few dozen Moiras in Portland, some of whom work/live in my neighborhood. (Only one vague reference to me appears buried in the results.) The service appears to connect people/places through phone number. A public-information number appears for my employer, and clicking the "more" link reveals pages connected to that number, not to me. Not particularly useful in that sense, but the map of all of the Moiras is nifty.