Google Trends - Anybody Know.......
 

i love this tool but i can't find any information as to how many searches are made - there's no numbers on the Y axis of the graph.

dead heat for these two

http://www.google.com/trends?q=kates...=2007-2&sort=0

you can't see directly how many searches are done, but rather see it as 'trend'. But you can compare that with wordtracker tool and get an idea about daily searches, or use adwords keywords reporting tool ;)

the KeywordDiscovery paid version has the same graphs as google trends but with numbers. You can also view by searches by engine.

you are a subscriber? it will give you an estimate of how many times a keyword/phrase is searched on different engines? how current it it?

yep...updated monthly. it gives you the universal total of searches and then offers each engines share of the searches.
example: Keyword porn has a gabillion searches. 70% Google, 10% MSN, 20% Yahoo
i believe there's a free trial you can use but i don't know if the free trial includes the adult keywords database.

All you need to know is the search volume for one keyword and compare. Pretty straight forward.