• Business Insider, Friday, June 10, 2011 10:21 AM

For the good or ill of mankind, new comScore data shows that The Huffington Post has officially surpassed The New York Times' Web site in terms of monthly unique online visitors. "It's an impressive feat," notes Business Insider. Or, as Brad Garlinghouse, AOL's president of applications and commerce, just put it on Twitter, "Six years to disrupt 100 years."

A New York Times spokeswoman was quick to point out that HuffPo is benefiting from redirects to its site from AOLNews.com -- which is part of the Web giant that recently acquired HuffPo. "And she's right!" Business Insider writes. "AOL is probably helping out quite a bit in this traffic jolt, but it doesn't change the fact that HuffPo is a growing beast in the news world."

What's next for Ariana and here merry minions? "Taking on the big news sites out there like Yahoo News and CNN," insists BI, "which attract 70 million -- 80 million uniques per month, according to comScore."

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