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 run a searxng instance for myself. Fetches from multiple sources.
I’ve heard good things about kagi, but it does require paying for (though you can try out a free tier to see if it’ll work for you)