This seems to follow nicely with the previous post referencing, CeWL.  Also dovetails nicely with me currently listening to Day 4: Password Attacks of SANS 560: Network Penetration Testing and Ethical Hacking …

So what does AWLG do?

“The Associative Word List Generator (AWLG) is a tool that generates a list of words relevant to some subjects, by scouring the Internet in an automated fashion.”

The about page indicates that MySpace pages, Wikipedia articles, etc. are searched.  That etc. is pretty important, but it is a fun tool to play around with.  Although the same Darknet article makes mention also of Wyd, but I think AWLG is a nice addition as you don’t have to have already downloaded the files to be searched, and can instead rely on internet search engines.  Likewise this tool has some facility beyond CeWL also, again because you don’t have to already know where the associated content can be found.  All in all a nice addition to my kit.

Also worth mentioning is that the stated privacy policy for AWLG to “not record any transmitted search strings or user information”

Definitely check out the cute stick figure animated explanation of AWLG – pretty funny: http://www.awlg.org/whatis.gen