Huffington Post beats Drudge Report in traffic for February

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Here's a story you won't see linked on the Drudge Report: The Huffington Post has officially taken over Drudge in the realm of politically-tilted news aggregation.

Huffpo's traffic caught up to Drudge's in January and surpassed it, according to two sets of data obtained by Kara Swisher. As measured by Nielsen Online, Huffpo had 3.7 million unique visitors in February, versus 3.4 million for Drudge.

http://www.portfolio.com/views/blogs/mixed-media/2008/03/21/huffpo-overtakes-drudge-in-traffic-war


Everyone is terribly, terribly excited at the possibility that Arianna Huffington's political blog site, the Huffington Post, may have raked in slightly more traffic last month than the Drudge Report. The left has triumphed over the right! The epic battle of the Greek socialites vs. the Miami fedora-wearing former psych patients has a winner! Rah! Or not.

Depending on whom you believe (and in Web metering, your dog might be considered a decent authority), HuffPo had between 300,000 and 700,000 more unique visitors in February than Drudge did. In the grand scheme of the Webosphere, that's really not a whole lot to write home about, especially when you consider what that victory probably cost HuffPo.

http://nymag.com/daily/intel/2008/03/arianna_huffingtons_traffic_wi.html

Pretty damn significant, wouldn't you say?

:wow: