I somehow got rid of my search engine?

I was on on my laptop and I moved my mouse and it did something to remove my search engine! I didn't see what happened and all I saw was that it made some weird noise and it "popped" and disappeared! My search engine is now gone and I can't look up anything, It completely disappeared! PLEASE HELP! I NEED MY LAPTOP FOR SCHOOL!

Choose Show Toolbar or Customize Toolbar from the View menu and put it back.
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