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’ve been using Ecosia for the past few years. It is a nice idea that my searches can contribute to something good, namely the planting of trees. Of course it is still Bing in the background, but it at least hides most of the data from uncle Microsoft.
That being said, I do find myself using Google if Ecosia does not produce the desired results. It works fine for 95% of searches, but is just not quite there when it comes to very technical queries.