He Said: Drudge #1 In Neisen Web Ratings She Said:Huffington Post Surpasses The Drudge Report for Web Traffic in February

Update:3/25 Drudge ran a flash that Nielsen Web Ratings ranks his site as #1 for the month of February, In fact in the ratings Huffington Post doesn't even show. The Spin is in. Who is correct?

http://www.naa.org/blog/digitaledge/1/2008/03/Nielsen-Online-Names-Top-30-News-Sites.cfm

For the first time Arianna Huffington's Huffington Post has surpassed Matt Drudge's The Drudge Report in Web hits for the Month of February,  All Things Digital columnist Kara Swisher reports, According to data from Nielsen Online, for example, the Huffington Post’s traffic–as measured by monthly unique visitors in the U.S., at home and work–has more than tripled since February of 2007, when it had about 1.1 million unique visitors; by February of 2008, unique visitors had risen to 3.7 million. In that same month, the Drudge Report had 3.4 million (it had 2.75 million in February of 2007).

As a reader of both sites, and one time (early on) paid subscriber to the Drudge Report, I find Huffington post to be updated more often, and more variety in stories. Drudge still has the best front page aggregate of headlines, and website, but alot of times his news becomes stale, especially after the stories stay the same for a long period of time.  Drudge is personality driven. Where Arianna lends her name and writes a column. Drudge is "old web". HuffPo is "new web"

http://kara.allthingsd.com/20080321/arianna-bests-drudge