I've been playing around with the Google suggest tool for a couple of months now and I was wondering if anybody knows the meaning of the numbers that google displays for a specific term. I'm sorry to be a pain, but when I write know I mean something verified by google and not some self proclaimed google-know-it-all-blog. My guess is that the number represents the number of searches in a certain period of time (if so then in what country? In broad, exact or phrase?).