Google has just made our job a lot harder:
Google Changes the Adwords Keyword Tool - For the Worse : INForum.in Blog

I don't use google's adword keyword tool unless it's for a venture within the US. The results for countries outside the US are seriously overinflated. More often than not I find it returns US search terms as well as the country I have selected. Not sure when the latest changes took place, but I stopped using the keyword tool a few months ago.

If I want a general idea of search volume I'll use a proxy server related to the country in question. Also, I find google's insight tool has some value.

Wow thanks for pointing this out! The Google tool was a few days late to update this month, so when it came up with March results I just started pounding it, but somehow I completely missed the "global search volume" thing. No wonder I haven't had any hot reg's in a couple weeks. Maybe they'll revert back if we complain, domainers are great complainers!

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I hope they change their minds and change it back. I can't see how this will benefit at all.

A good point - lately the results seemed more and more incorrect - perhaps that was a prelude to this change.

Google Insight tool is also good. It's a good way of testing whether you're getting accurate results from the Google Adwords Keyword Tool. However, the Insight tool doesn't provide absolute numbers, which are important.

Yes precise search volume would be fantastic, but we have to realise is there is no single magic bullet atm. The best approach would be to use a number of different resources. Although these results may be generalised, if they're all saying the same thing then they verify each other.

I like google insight because it shows whether a search term is being searched for more or less often over time. Also, it shows what are the top searches relating to the specific term (up to 10) and what are the fastest rising searches.

Agreed, but most data sources seem to be American-centric. This was one of the few tools that provided good India data.

Yes..one of the very few accurate ones..also this change was inevitable as far as I could see..

Google adwords keytool should be update to be able to have relevant new information to people who always search the net. Google are very useful to students that are why it should be updated.