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 pay for Kagi annually if it helps. I get bogged down with the monthlys too. They also do a pay as you go for when you go over your plans limit: image of pay per use config