Greg, thanks for your advice about updating to the latest version, I think it's worked. Getting much healthier results now.
Also, what keywords are you are looking for to get that many results back? I search for a pretty competitive niche keyword or two but I only ever get 2-3000 tops. Or am I just not using it right?
Steve.
Okay hope it helped, seems like a few people had issues with goog yesterday...
as far as keywords, and how many results you get back, couple things:
1 - what # do you have in the Results box? (main interface, under Select Engines & Proxies); and are you harvesting from all 4 SE's?
2 - are you using the Timeline feature to limit? if not, don't worry about it, it's a matter of personal preference - it can constrain results to only those indexed by each SE during certain intervals, but if you're not using it, it wouldn't be a gating factor)
3 - being the lazy sod that I am, here's how I usually cook up my harvest kw's:
a - type in a few words or phrases that are relevant to my backlinks
b - search on goog or bing for one or more of those and see what the most frequent ads target for kw's and add those
c - copy all my kw's/phrases into the Keyword Scraper (copy your keywords from the main UI, click the Scrape button @ the bottom of the Harvester area, and paste them in), then scrape all the sources for related phrases - after that scrape is done, remove duplicate keywords (there's a button for it - sweetfunny's UI is like Staples - "That wasy easy") and add them to the main keyword list
You should end up with a lot results from that process. Yes, fair warning, you'll end up with duplicate domains - duh - but they're easy enough to remove (and nothing will throw you in the spam bin faster than slamming 20-30 comments onto one blog, so use that remove dupe feature)
also I've noticed that the keyword scraper is a bit fuzzy (e.g. if you're scraping for "seo" you can end up with phrases like "Seoul Korea") so I sometimes clean out the kw list before harvesting...but sometimes not, since I'm so incredibly lazy....I like the fuzzy logic it uses overall, just something I've noticed about certain keywords....
HTH
peace - gregs.