google keyword tool

FYI the Google Keywords Tool is now showing December search results

Had this again when conducting a search today: local search results being higher than global. It's always struck me as odd, unless they're making some strange geo-political point about the UK not being part of the world. Any ideas, anyone? Mike.

How can a word on Google Keyword Tool have 60K exact local but only 50K exact global for the same month? Is this just an example of the potential unreliability of this tool? Are the global and local figures calculated differently? Or have people being doing anti-matter searches to...