Text that you enter is matched with the entry in the database and it can appear anywhere in the field. If you are looking for a model of an airplane and you enter the text airplane you will get some matches. If you enter the text plane you will match Airplane, Aeroplane, Biplane, Monoplane, SST Airplane, and Airplane Tower . Entries in the Other box should be lower case unless you're searching for a person's name in the diagrammer or editor field. All subcategories are in lower case.
All conditions narrow the search.
The search can be refined by choosing a level of difficulty or a starting base or even the name of a specific critter. This can backfire, however, since anteaters are called both Anteater and Aardvark . Paper shape and paper type will return only models that use the selected paper type. Newsletters and magazines from OrigamiUSA are titled with the newsletter or magazine number and items from the Annual Collection of models are titled simply with the year. While this is admittedly somewhat provincial it is the way it is.