The Longest Sightline on Earth

https://calgaryvisioncentre.com/news/2017/6/23/tdgft1bsbdlm8496ov7tn73kr0ci1q

34•lemper•6mo ago

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yk•6mo ago

Best ad I've read all day.

mrkurt•6mo ago

Some of the best content marketing I've ever read. More please.

turnsout•6mo ago

Came here to say this. I didn’t realize it was content marketing until the end, and then the reveal was so funny I LOL’d. Serious props!

FredPret•6mo ago

The rest of their blog is pretty amazing in this regard too

oidar•6mo ago

This is how you do blog marketing.

PaulHoule•6mo ago

SEO. Is. Not. Dead.

Cthulhu_•6mo ago

Don't know what the weird emphasis periods are about, but arguably, this isn't SEO but just good content markting, as the post is going viral on HN and the like. Search engines are just one aspect of having a successful site, and if you focus too much on search engines your site ends up being ass.

PaulHoule•6mo ago

It's not just SEO, it's also SMO.

But seriously, who's going to make a link to a site like that unless it has interesting articles like that.

The #1 bad idea people have is that they're going to rank #1 for a big keyword like "buy WOW gold" -- what you can do it publish 100s or 1000s of articles which will make you rank #1 for 100s or 1000s of minor keywords.

To make it clear this is praise for that site, not an insult.

tmoravec•6mo ago

Here's the photograph: https://www.reddit.com/r/europe/comments/v4h6p8/the_current_...

derbOac•6mo ago

Pretty cool although I'm surprised the distance isn't longer, and was a little surprised by the location.

stenl•6mo ago

If, like me, you wanted to see the actual farthest distance photo, here it is: https://beyondrange.wordpress.com/

timerol•6mo ago

Specifically https://beyondrange.wordpress.com/2016/08/03/pic-de-finestre...

gnabgib•6mo ago

(2017)

Guinness World Record for longest line-of-sight photograph https://beyondrange.wordpress.com/2016/08/03/pic-de-finestre...

Longest Lines of Sight on Earth (2017) (336 points, 155 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14861075 (https://archive.is/xYvBm)

moralestapia•6mo ago

Flagged why?

ameliaquining•6mo ago

Presumably because it's content marketing and some people are categorically against that even if it's kind of good and funny.

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The Longest Sightline on Earth

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