Embodiments of the present invention provide a system and computer program product for ranking search results based upon content creation trends. In an embodiment of the invention, a computer program product for ranking search results based upon content creation trends includes a computer readable storage medium having computer readable program code for first receiving a set of results from a search engine produced in response to a search engine query of one or more search terms, for ranking the results of the result set according to at least one ranking factor, for retrieving trend data for terms associated with either or both of the results and/or the search terms, and for weighting the ranked results in the result set according to the retrieved trend data.