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“300M User Queries (per month)”

Jensen Huang, NVIDIA CEO, keynote slides · March 2013 · GTC 2013 Jen-Hsun Huang Keynote (SlideShare)

Shazam, which uses GPUs for audio search, handled about 300M user queries per month by 2013.

Resolved true The record shows it happened or was so.

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What would count as true or false

The claim is that Shazam, which used GPUs for audio search, handled about 300 million user queries per month by March 2013. True: Shazam or NVIDIA disclosures, or credible reporting from around 2013, show about 300M queries a month (roughly 270M–330M), along with Shazam's use of GPUs for search. Mostly true: the volume is about right, but a minor detail is off, such as the figure relating to a slightly different date, or GPU use being only partial. Mixed: one part holds and the other does not. Mostly false: the real figure was far from 300M, for example a different time unit such as per year, or a figure under about 200M or over 450M a month. False: the evidence contradicts the claim outright.

Evidence

1. Nvidia kicks off GTC 2013 with fresh roadmaps, new products - ZDNET ZDNET · 19 March 2013

   “Jason Titus, CTO of Shazam, talked about how the service used GPUs to handle 10 million searches per day, match them with its 27-million song database, and deliver an answer quickly.”

2. NVIDIA GPUs Tackle Big-Data Analytics and Search on Growing Number of Leading Applications NVIDIA · 19 March 2013 Own record

   “With more than 10 million song searches a day, 2 million new users joining the service every week and its database having doubled over the last year, Shazam is growing rapidly.”

3. NVIDIA GPUs Tackle Big-Data Analytics and Search on Growing Number of Leading Applications NVIDIA · 19 March 2013 Own record

   “Shazam -- one of the top five music applications in the Apple App Store and Google Play store -- uses GPU accelerators to rapidly search and identify songs from its 27 million track database.”

4. NVIDIA GPUs Tackle Big-Data Analytics and Search on Growing Number of Leading Applications NVIDIA · 19 March 2013 Own record

   “Using a mobile phone or tablet, the app's 300 million-plus users capture brief samples of music, which are then matched with an acoustic fingerprint.”

Reasoning

An independent ZDNET report from GTC in March 2013 [E1] says Shazam's CTO described the service using GPUs to handle 10 million searches per day. NVIDIA's press release from the same day [E2, E3] gives more than 10 million song searches a day and says Shazam uses GPU accelerators to search its database. At about 30 days a month, that is roughly 300 million queries a month, inside the 270M–330M range in the criteria. The 300 million users figure in [E4] is a separate number and does not affect this result.

Cite this claim

Jensen Huang, “Shazam, which uses GPUs for audio search, handled about 300M user queries per month by 2013.” (said March 2013). Verdict: resolved true. Reliability API, claim c_1042e9e12160, method 0.1.0+03d23c0e. https://epistacklabs.com/claims/c_1042e9e12160