1. A method comprising: receiving text at a first computing device; selecting, by the first computing device, a portion of the received text absent user interaction with the portion of the received text; forming a query based at least in part upon the selected portion of the received text, wherein the query includes a first portion that is associated with the selected portion of the text; selecting, from among multiple different indexes, at least one index to search based on the query; transmitting, by the first computing device, the query to at least one of one or more second computing devices based at least in part on the selected index; receiving information relevant to the query from at least one of the one or more second computing devices; and displaying, by the computing device, the relevant information.
1. A method comprising: receiving text at a first computing device; selecting, by the first computing device, a portion of the received text absent user interaction with the portion of the received text; forming a query based at least in part upon the selected portion of the received text, wherein the query includes a first portion that is associated with the selected portion of the text; selecting, from among multiple different indexes, at least one index to search based on the query; transmitting, by the first computing device, the query to at least one of one or more second computing devices based at least in part on the selected index; receiving information relevant to the query from at least one of the one or more second computing devices; and displaying, by the computing device, the relevant information. 3. The method of claim 1 , wherein: selecting a portion of the text comprises optically capturing text printed on a rendered document; and forming the query comprises: identifying the rendered document from the captured text; and forming the query based at least in part on the identified rendered document.