1. An information retrieval system comprising: a device connection coupled with a device configured to acquire a digital representation of a scene; and an identification server configured to: obtain the digital representation from the device over the device connection; recognize an object within the scene based on the digital representation; derive object attributes associated with the object based at least in part on the digital representation; derive a query targeting a search engine indexing system based on the object attributes; and cause the query to be submitted to a search engine that is configured to cause a results set from the query to be transmitted back to the device.