Searching in System Preferences has stopped working

A few days ago I noticed that I couldn't search within System Preferences. I can type in the search box, but no autocomplete results are shown and no icons are highlighted. Searching is basically useless:
It was working before, so it must be something that I did. There has been another thread about the problem before, with no solution. Nothing else comes up in Google either. Does anyone have any ideas as to what might have caused this?

I wouldn’t say the problem is in Mavericks, the other thread I found on it is from 2009. I’m surprised how rare this issue is – seems like something that should have an easy fix.

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