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 use Startpage but plan on switching to SearX
I tried it. The appeal to me was it was supposed to be like Google but maybe better but it’s just worse. :(