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Weirdly I saw the title and was going to suggest making a search engine to only return sites with low traffic until I realised what this post was advertising.
i think search engines are ... tricky
i always prefer lists and indexes over search engines because search engines feels a bit like voodoo magic to me, it has unpredictable outcomes. for example, sometimes you need just the right keyword for search engines to give you meaningful results, and otherwise it will just not return anything. and that is a lot like chatgpt ... you ask it something and it might give you a meaningful response. or it might completely miss the point. when there's an actual list of communities that is small and complete, then i can go through it manually to check where it might be.