Google does not have a monopoly on search engines. There is abundant competition in the search engine market: DuckDuckGo, Bing, Yandex, Brave, Yahoo.
Nobody uses Google because they have to, they use it because it is the best.
Nobody uses Google because they have to, they use it because it is the best.
DuckDuckGo and Yahoo both use Bing's search index. (Which sucks whenever Bing randomly removes your website for no reason.)
Brave Search is a very recent addition, just within the past year or two.
Oh yeah, you sure its not because its the default browser on Android ?
If Google Search, as the default search engine of Android, wasn't good enough, nobody would use it.