Whatever you think about Google there is no denying it is the search engine most of the world are using (65% according to the link below). I use Firefox (3%) and DuckDuckGo (0.58%)
https://gs.statcounter.com/search-engine-market-share
https://gs.statcounter.com/search-engine-market-share
So if you want a quick way to improve your SEO (probably) you might want to consider verification on Google Search Console. There are many ways of doing this but probably the easiest is to load up a Google generated file to your public_html directory.
Start here:
https://search.google.com/search-console/about