Many people don't bother looking for alternatives because it is shipped by default in their web browser. They may don't even know what a search engine is, nor that there are more than the one they use on a daily basis, but have internalized "google" as a verb.
I for example "still" use it. Sometimes it still gives more precise results than any other alternative. No alternative I've ever tried gives precise local results for this country - DuckDuckGo or Mojeek, for example, not only don't have "Colombia" in it - they don't have anything "Latin America" in it.
And I don't want to spend money on something like Kagi. Not even sure if they accept payments from here, and not a fan of the idea of even more paid subscriptions.
Many people don't bother looking for alternatives because it is shipped by default in their web browser. They may don't even know what a search engine is, nor that there are more than the one they use on a daily basis, but have internalized "google" as a verb.
I for example "still" use it. Sometimes it still gives more precise results than any other alternative. No alternative I've ever tried gives precise local results for this country - DuckDuckGo or Mojeek, for example, not only don't have "Colombia" in it - they don't have anything "Latin America" in it.
And I don't want to spend money on something like Kagi. Not even sure if they accept payments from here, and not a fan of the idea of even more paid subscriptions.