There were many speculations about the future of Yahoo’s Keyword SelectorTool when many users had trouble using for the past few days.

It’s no doubt one of the most useful free keyword research tools online.

Yahoo spokesperson explained that this is not true. The reason why the public Keyword Selector Tool being inaccessible are due to volume and it’s not in danger of disappearing anytime soon.

In fact, a new public keyword research tool which would be hosted through Yahoo! will be made available later this year.

For existing advertisers on Yahoo Search Marketing, the “protected” version which is accessible within an advertiser’s account management console should work fine.