Where do you find the answer if your question becomes an orphan?

Every now and then I browse through the orphan section hoping that I will hold the key to someone else’s burning question, but I never know what they’re asking. Seems like orphans are very specific technical questions that only specific people would know the answer to. So what do you do when no one answers your question? Do you google it? Or ask it a different way? Or give up perhaps?..