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).
How did I not know about bangs til now, I’ve been using DDG for years! I’ve just been relying on the @ codes in the Firefox search bar, which are super limited. Thanks for the tip!