Embodiments of the invention provide a method, system and computer program product for mobile background listener influenced search result prioritization. In an embodiment of the invention, the method includes capturing data in memory of a mobile computing device and caching the captured data as terms in a temporary data store of the mobile computing device. The method also includes receiving one or more query terms in a query interface displayed in a display of the mobile computing device and directing a search engine to search a repository of data based upon the query terms and receiving, in response, a list of search results. The method yet further includes identifying ones of the search results as having a correlation to one or more terms in the temporary data store. Finally, the method includes presenting the ones of the search results first in the display relative to others of the search results.