CALIFORNIA – A video that poke fun at Google‘s email service, Gmail, has been posted online, and apparently produced by the internet search company’s closest competitors, namely Microsoft.

According to the site ZDNet.com, a video that introduces a character named ‘Gmail Man’ is, leaked by one of the visitors who attended the event sales of Microsoft‘s Global Exchange conference. The video itself is now circulating on YouTube. Similarly, as quoted by the Los Angeles Times on Friday (29/07/2010).

In the video Gmail Man says he filters out the users to target ads to their search. “Yes, sometimes kdang when people really like Gmail, then they will really get along. Until finally appeared in the Gmail ads,” he said.

The video also mentions the new cloud services from Microsoft, the Microsoft Office 365, and shows an office of a company named Contoso Ltd.. ZDNet says that the name of the company’s fiction is often used in demo Microsoft products.

With the new Office 365 which was launched last June, Microsoft is now stepping into the Google cloud, as well as compete with Google Apps service owned by Google to offer online software to users and the business sector.

Microsoft has yet to respond to the issue of their involvement in the video.