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 just recently started using Startpage. The results to me so far seem pretty good but im in a country where I speak the language. And I like that it doesn’t save my searches. For that I use DDG.