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Thanks for sharing! You've had nice continuous monthly growth with the direct queries. API usage seems to be hovering at 10M...any reasons for that? Was the jump in direct queries between December(2.4M) and January(5.1M) a result of the Donttrack.us site?

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API usage has been mainly driven by one huge set of extensions, namely http://smarterfox.com/. So while more people start using our API, a ton would have to use it to move that needle.

The graph is annotated (though sometimes it doesn't come up). The major uptick in Jan was due to the donttrack.us site and the associated billboard and its associated press (a couple weeks after). You can see it in the daily #s very clearly if you scroll down.

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