Play Game Show with Google
If you want to have Google to help you fill in some information, you can use it in what I refer to as "Game Show Mode". Game show mode is a slight change in context for using Google. Instead of trying to determine exactly what you seek, let google fill in the blank for you to see what IT finds.
In Game Show Mode, you pose a question to Google as if you were a game show host and google will give you "answers" to your question.
So instead of typing:
How many times did edison fail while inventing the lightbulb
Try:
edison failed *