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).
True. I’m definitely not their target audience. SearXNG is great bc if configured right I get great results that aren’t too cluttered. I’d rather have it hosted by someone I can trust (a friend of a friend runs the instance I use) and not have to worry about it. I’m not against payed services but I do hate subscriptions except for when they’re truly necessary.