Lately I've been using Google keyword tool and it seems that they have changes something making it practically impossible to use. It is not an option to look up a particular keyword anymore, it always suggests you a huge pile not even related keywords(it start suggest interior remodeling when Im looking for keywords related to painting) I also only interested to find business for city of Dallas, but it is not limiting to it either, it suggest tons of absolutely worthless keywords and I have to dig through about 800 of them to find what i'm looking for. Anybody has any suggestion or bad experience as well?
I had the same problem in the beginning of using the tool, but I could find a narrower range of targeted keywords by typing each word or two words in a separate line rather than typing very long sentence in one line, it gave me more specific results. The problem is that you can spend a very long time looking for a keyword with less competition and can get you some real traffic as well