10. A non-transitory tangible computer-readable medium encoded with processing instructions for implementing a method, performed by a computer, for selecting digital content related to a portion of a block of text, the method comprising: submitting the block of text to a computer-implemented service for identifying digital content, wherein: the block of text is accessible via a web interface; and the digital content comprises still or moving digital images; receiving from the computer-implemented service a visual indication of one or more words in the block of text for which related digital content is available, wherein the one or more words for which related digital content is available is determined in part by: segmenting the submitted block of text into one or more segments comprising phrases or individual words; removing one or more of the segmented phrases or individual words that are less likely to result in finding images; and searching a database of digital content based on the one or more segmented phrases or individual words; selecting one or more of the words for which the visual indication is received, wherein the one or more words are not manually provided as search queries for digital content; for each of the one or more selected words, receiving from the computer-implemented service one or more digital content items or identifiers associated with the one or more digital content items, wherein information is received from a licensing service to obtain or verify a license to the one or more received digital content items or identifiers, and further wherein the digital content items are related to the one or more selected words; and selecting one or more of the received digital content items to be associated with the one or more selected words, wherein the received digital content items are associated with the one or more selected words only if a valid license has been obtained or verified for the received digital content items or identifiers, and further wherein the one or more received digital content items are accessible via the web interface.
10. A non-transitory tangible computer-readable medium encoded with processing instructions for implementing a method, performed by a computer, for selecting digital content related to a portion of a block of text, the method comprising: submitting the block of text to a computer-implemented service for identifying digital content, wherein: the block of text is accessible via a web interface; and the digital content comprises still or moving digital images; receiving from the computer-implemented service a visual indication of one or more words in the block of text for which related digital content is available, wherein the one or more words for which related digital content is available is determined in part by: segmenting the submitted block of text into one or more segments comprising phrases or individual words; removing one or more of the segmented phrases or individual words that are less likely to result in finding images; and searching a database of digital content based on the one or more segmented phrases or individual words; selecting one or more of the words for which the visual indication is received, wherein the one or more words are not manually provided as search queries for digital content; for each of the one or more selected words, receiving from the computer-implemented service one or more digital content items or identifiers associated with the one or more digital content items, wherein information is received from a licensing service to obtain or verify a license to the one or more received digital content items or identifiers, and further wherein the digital content items are related to the one or more selected words; and selecting one or more of the received digital content items to be associated with the one or more selected words, wherein the received digital content items are associated with the one or more selected words only if a valid license has been obtained or verified for the received digital content items or identifiers, and further wherein the one or more received digital content items are accessible via the web interface. 22. The non-transitory tangible computer-readable medium of claim 10 wherein the digital content comprises at least one of audio information or video information.