I use Yahoo as my search engine and yes, I can search from there, but I do prefer Google! When something isn’t working, I must know why....inquisitve mind! ;o)
Did you reboot and get Google back? I remember when that happened to us. My daughter was on her computer and I was on mine. She had Google longer than I did. I was panicking that something was wrong with my computer. Google fixed it a few hours later.