Ranking search results based upon content creation trends

A computer program product for ranking search results based upon content creation trends, the computer program product comprising:

• non-transitory computer readable storage medium having computer readable program code embodied therewith, the computer readable program code comprising:
• computer readable program code for executing a search engine query of a plurality of search terms in a search engine of a computer comprising memory and at least one processor;
• computer readable program code for receiving a result set of results from the search engine produced in response to the search engine query of the plurality of search terms;
• computer readable program code for ranking the results of the result set by the processor in the memory of the computer according to at least one ranking factor;
• computer readable program code for identifying one or more related terms related to the search terms and submitting both the search terms and the related terms by the processor to a trend feed over a computer communications network, and retrieving in response, trend data indicating which of the search terms are trending popular and which of the search terms are not trending popular;
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• computer readable program code for identifying ones of the results in the result set present in the result set in correspondence to ones of the search terms and the related terms determined to be trending popular according to the retrieved trend data and weighting by the processor the ranked results in the result set according to the retrieved trend data by multiplying the ones of the ranked results in the results set by a numerical factor, the multiplication increasing a corresponding ranking for each of the ones of the ranked results,
• whereby the weighted ranked results produces a prioritized results set of results most likely to be popular according to the trend data for the search terms and the related terms of the query giving rise to the results weighted most heavily.

A search results data processing system configured for ranking search results based upon content creation trends, the system comprising:

• a host server with at least one processor and memory and configured for communicatively coupling to different computing devices over a computer communications network;
• a search engine executing in the memory of the host server and providing result sets of different results from respectively different search engine queries received from the computing devices over the computer communications network;
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• a trend based ranking module coupled to the search engine comprising program code when executed in the memory of the host server performs:
• receiving a result set of results from the search engine produced in response to a search engine query of a plurality of search terms;
• ranking the results of the result set by the processor in the memory of the computer according to at least one ranking factor;
• identifying one or more related terms related to the search terms and submitting both the search terms and the related terms by the processor to a trend feed over a computer communications network, and retrieving in response, trend data indicating which of the search terms are trending popular and which of the search terms are not trending popular;
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• identifying ones of the results in the result set present in the result set in correspondence to ones of the search terms and the related terms determined to be trending popular according to the retrieved trend data and weighting by the processor the ranked results in the result set according to the retrieved trend data by multiplying the ones of the ranked results in the results set by a numerical factor, the multiplication increasing a corresponding ranking for each of the ones of the ranked results,
• whereby the weighted ranked results produces a prioritized results set of results most likely to be popular according to the trend data for the search terms and the related terms of the query giving rise to the results weighted most heavily.