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I doubt anyone would contest the statement that pornography has made the Internet what it is today.

If not for young males waiting minutes and minutes to see a glimpse of a nipple download onto a computer screen in 1994, the Web as we know it may have been an after-thought.

So, it’s no surprise porn continues to drive technology and the advances therein. Broadband popularity should thank porn, for example.

(Every company should take advantage of the surge in broadband, by the way, by placing employment branding videos on their company’s site, but that’s another post.)

And now, even Google’s getting deeper into the abyss.

Google co-founder Larry Page has announced that the company wants the public to send in its homemade videos – and he doesn’t mind how naughty they are.

“There might be an adult section, or something like that. I don’t think that is going to be a big issue,” Page told attendees at the National Cable and Telecommunications Show in San Francisco on Monday, where he was speaking on a panel.

Let’s think about this from an HR perspective:

It’s one thing for Paris Hilton or Limp Bizkit’s Fred Durst to be caught in homemade sex tapes. But imagine everyday people – like coworkers – getting indexed and easily searched on the Web for similar "mistakes."

Imagine Stacy in marketing and a shady video from Mardi Gras making the rounds in your company’s inboxes. Sure, it probably happens today, but now Google’s making it easier.

Talk about something spreading like wild fire and major personnel headaches.

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