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).
I recently tried Brave and Duckduckgo, but I always come back to Startpage. It’s a little bit slow but search result more satisfied for me.