Personalizing a search query using social media

A computer program product for personalizing a search of a search service comprising:

• one or more computer readable storage media and program instructions stored on the one or more computer readable storage media, the stored program instructions comprising:
• program instructions to retrieve one or more social media content items from the one or more social media services by a personalization component;
• program instructions to forward the retrieved social media content items by the personalization component to a content analyzing service configured for extracting keywords from the social media content items;
• program instructions to receive by the personalization component a set of one or more keywords extracted from the social media content items from the content analyzing service;
• program instructions to determine a content item of the search query type comprising a second search query to be modified using the set of keywords;
• program instructions to modify the determined second search query, wherein the modifying comprises adding one or more keywords of the set keywords as additional search parameters of the determined second search query;
• and
• program instructions to store the modified second search query as a content item of the search query type in the search index of the search service.

A computer system for personalizing a search of a search service comprising:

• one or more computer processors;
• one or more computer readable storage media;
• and
• program instructions stored on the computer readable storage media for execution by at least one of the one or more processors, the stored program instructions comprising:
• program instructions to retrieve one or more social media content items from the one or more social media services by a personalization component;
• program instructions to forward the retrieved social media content items by the personalization component to a content analyzing service configured for extracting keywords from the social media content items;
• program instructions to receive by the personalization component a set of one or more keywords extracted from the social media content items from the content analyzing service;
• program instructions to determine a content item of the search query type comprising a second search query to be modified using the set of keywords;
• program instructions to modify the determined second search query, wherein the modifying comprises adding one or more keywords of the set keywords as additional search parameters of the determined second search query;
• and
• program instructions to store the modified second search query as a content item of the search query type in the search index of the search service.