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 didn’t know about bangs until now, and I’m reflecting my live now. How was I able to use duckduckgo without them for so long? So many unnecessary clicks …
I actually went a while without knowing about them too. At least now you’ve seen the light.