Methods and systems are provided for weighting contemporaneous content includes, in response to a user content request, by determining a plurality of contemporaneous content items relating to the user content request, the contemporaneous content items including, ultra-fresh content items having been only recently generated. For each of the contemporaneous content items, one or more authors of the content items are identified, and an expertise level for the one or more authors and an expert weighting for each of the content items based on the expertise level for the corresponding one or more authors are determined. Weighting the contemporaneous content includes ranking the contemporaneous content items in response to the user content request based on the expert weighting and presenting at least a portion of the contemporaneous content items in response to the user content request.