Not sure how "new" this is, but it is a cool tool for free.
Text Link Brokers added a free themed backlink grabber tool to their site.
You input
- the keyword you are interested in
- the desired minimum PageRank
- Number of search result pages
- & your email address
The tool then cross references the backlinks pointing into competing websites and returns a list of websites which meet your minimum PageRank requirement and link to two or more sites that were ranked in the search results.
Pages that link to multiple competing sites are appealing link targets since they frequently are likely to link to your site too.
The tool takes a good deal of time to run because it has to do a ton of data processing.
Gmail clipped the email so I did not see the whole report, but what I saw looked rather useful. The email is available in both HTML and CSV formats.
One potential negative to using this tool is that you may be exposing your industry to the eyes of an influential link broker who may be working for a competitor, may soon help a competitor, or may become a competitor [added: Jarrod below commented that they do not use the data in any way other than to process the report].
Links (from people like me blogging about tools like this) have an intrinsic value which may make giving away some tools more rewarding than selling them.
