Yes. 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,

Yes. 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.