Best Keyword Popularity Tool?
 

What do you use to estimate how many people are searching for a given keyword? It seem like the google adwords beta tool blocks most profane terms

Market Samurai is the best tool in my experience.

Any free tools?

Google Insight

The problem with free tools is that are not accurate and up to date.

The price of Market Samurai is about 150$ and its value is far beyond.

Well how does it get its info? I really wouldn't trust a product from making estimates based on a small sample it gets from random toolbars they have installed.

insight and trends dont give actual volume, just relative volume, unless im wrong. the adwords tool filters all adult words =|

There's a box you have to check on the Google tool to include adult. If your not checking it that's why you're not getting adult search numbers

What do you say? Market Samurai doesn't get data from toolbars around the world, they get data directly from big G APIs, the real data from all the G servers.
I don't need to make promotion to MS and they neither need, I want only to share my experience. As Internet Marketer my tool number 1 and the one I should pay for is Market Samurai.

What G APIs are these then? I'm just curious what I would be paying for. Are they the only ones with access to the data? are they doing some special processing of the data?

google's relative values is more trusted and useful for me than paid keyword tools like wordtracker.

http://www.keyworddiscovery.com/search.html is a good free tool