It's more of a general observation and I was wondering if other people are seeing the same thing. I'd say my issue is overall the explorer tool now returns 50-70% fewer keywords and it always has a ton of keywords with domain names in them (I don't care if the keyword "brandname.com" is available as brandnamecom.org). I'll email you screenshots showing the results for the same keyword in the old API and the new SEMRush version and you tell me which one you think is useful.
Appreciate the response and the email. The current 3 main issues I see with Keyword Discoveries are:
1) less results
2) result with .com, .org, etc in them
3) some keywords get hung
The good news is, I can solve all three of them before the end of the day
1) I will bump the number up
2) I had previously instituted code with the Google API to handle that, but never carried it over to SEMRush. Will do that today
3) Some keywords simply aren't in SEMRush's database, but I haven't setup proper error handling code to account for that. This one leaves our hands tied pretty good, because we're only as expansive as SEMRush is. I will take care of the error catching so you at least don't see the spinning wheel of death forever, and will keep hounding google til they love us tenderly again.
The unfortunate reality is that I've literally seen entire keyword research companies close up shop recently because of the bullshit google pulled. We're doing our best considering the circumstances and will continue to innovate from a variety of angles to make sure quality remains the same despite outside circumstances.
In other news, my main development machine was in the shop until last night so I've been hindered with coding until today. I can FINALLY go full bore now, and plan on doing so all day and night tonight and tomorrow and through the weekend. So we'll have these issues cleared up shortly and then we'll be launching our new stuff very soon.
Stay tuned and thanks for the support and feedback guys, it's very helpful to us.