One of the fun things about being a black hat that's somewhat well known is that I get to try out various bits of software before they're actually released to the public.  In some cases I put my input into it and get a few things coded that I'm too lazy to do right now...

For the past couple of months I've been working with Levi on a new keyword research tool.  Of course, it does the usual things including letting you find keywords and their search count.  But what I like even better is the dig feature that actually lets you dig into the keyword and find related keywords.  I can't won't tell you how the data is obtained but I've been using it to get keywords for lots of my misc projects and I'll say that I like it quite a bit.

Another cool feature that Levi's site has is a new way to track the difficulty of ranking for a term based on the number of links you'd need to build per month.  This is the thing that I'm sure a lot of you will want to tear apart and figure out how he's doing it - I know I'm still trying to figure this one out! :) 

(added by Rand - I thought a screenshot would be helpful)

Anyhow, check it out if you want to see the latest in keyword research :)