I live in a country which uses a language I don’t speak but Google defaults to regional results in spite of my language being set to English. All other engines give me really poor results (not that Google was giving good ones, the image search has really gone to shit since they started populating it with AI stuff).
Same, and now most of the cases the results from DDG are better than Google. Sometimes I end using
!g- but it’s fraction of my searches.