Google Man : Microsofts satirical Video on Gmail service privacy

Microsoft satirical Video shared the funny take on Google’s email service approach to privacy at its recent Microsoft Global Exchange sales conference. 

The Gmail Man video opens up with the following message: “The following scenes represent the opposite experience of Office 365.”

Introductory message aside, the video is actually focused on Gmail’s privacy sins, namely the fact that Google is not really separating its email and advertising businesses. Moreover, Microsoft hints of the fact that advertising will always come first for Google even to the expense of user privacy, after all, its ad revenues keep the lights on for the Mountain View-based search giant.

“He’s everywhere and nowhere at the same time / He peeks at every subject in unreal time / Probing ever sentence and all your punctuation / Got his nose in every colon, every situation,” are the lines for the opening tune in the video.

“Well, sometimes, when a person really loves their Gmail very, very much, the two get together, and an ad is born,” the Gmail Man explains in the video.

Google has confirmed that it scans the content of emails and serves advertising to users in accordance to specific keywords included in their messages. 

The video mentions Microsoft's new cloud service, Microsoft Office 365, and shows the offices of a business named Contoso Ltd., which ZDNet says is a fictional company often used in demos for Microsoft products.

With Office 365, which the company announced last month, Microsoft is stepping into familiar territory for Google -- the cloud -- and competing with the search giant's Google Apps service to offer online software to consumers and businesses.

Microsoft did not a return a call seeking information regarding its involvement in the video (or lack thereof).