Say I'm writing an article, and trying decide which specific words or
phrases to optimize.  Does Google have a tool similar to the Overture
Search Suggestion Tool?

http://inventory.overture.com/d/searchinventory/suggestion/

I want to be able to do two things:

1)  For a specific word or phrase, see how many times that search term
has been used in Google over a specified time (a week, a month,
doesn't really matter)
2)  See closely related terms and see how often they have been
searched for in Google

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Request for Question Clarification by mcfly-ga on 23 Jun 2003 02:35 PDT

Hi Natalie,

Google has it's own keyword suggestion tool aimed at the Adwords
service, available here:

Google Adwords: Keyword Suggestions
https://adwords.google.com/select/main?cmd=keywordSandbox

Also of potential use is 'Google Sets', a site which will generate a
set of related terms from a single, or set of, keyword(s).

Google Sets
http://labs.google.com/sets

However neither of the above conform to your requirements regarding
available statistics about search frequencies.

I also found a piece of software called 'Word Tracker' during my
searching, which looks as if it will perform all the tasks you
require.  However, it comes at a price of $6.99 per day's usage.  You
can see more details at:

Word Tracker
http://www.wordtracker.com/

If you decide this is useful to you, let me know and I will post the
above as an answer.

Kind regards,

mcfly-ga :)

I have compiled a page of such tools, but Google doesn't have one that
does as you require.
http://searchenginez.com/keywords.html