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).
Also a searx user. I started recently and the ability to.choose the engines for the various categories is something I never thought of. The science category, for example, is extremely nice.